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FARR, Tommy 1914-1986 |
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• 58-59 Queen's Road |
FAWCETT, Henry 1833-1884 FAWCETT, Dame Millicent Garrett 1847-1929 |
![]() Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a leading campaigner for women's suffrage, who co-founded Newnham College, Cambridge in 1871. Image: Henry and Millicent Fawcett by Ford Madox Ford (1872) |
• York Place |
FERGUSON, George |
Developer of the Ladies Mile Estate at Eastwick Bottom, Patcham in the early 1930s. Member of the Plymouth Brethren. | • White House, Ladies Mile Road [residence] • Ladies Mile Estate |
FIELDING, (Anthony Vandyke) Copley 1787-1855 |
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* 2 Lansdowne Place [residence] • St Andrew's Churchyard, New Church Road |
FIFE, Duke and Duchess of | See Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife and Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife. | |
FILMER, Sir Edmund, 9th bt 1835-1886 FILMER, Lady Mary Georgina 1838-1903 |
![]() Lady Mary Georgina Filmer [née Cecil], his wife, was a pioneer of photomontage and photographic collage, such as the family portrait here. |
• 2 Queen's Gardens [residence 1885] • Waldeck House, The Drive [residence 1886, deathplace] |
FINLAY, Frank (Francis) CBE 1926-2016 |
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• 1 Wyndham Street [residence c1979-2009] |
FISHER, Herbert William JP 1826-1903 |
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• 19 Second Avenue [family residence 1880-1903] |
HESKETH-FLEETWOOD, Sir Peter 1801-1866 |
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• 34 Adelaide Crescent |
FLEMYNG, Robert OBE, MC 1912-1995 | ![]() |
• 6 Arundel Terrace [residence 1953-] |
FORSYTH, Commander Charles Codrington RN 1810-1873 |
Served as Senior Mate on HMS Beagle before being promoted to officer rank. In northern Canada Forsyth Bay and Forsyth Point on Prince of Wales Island are named after him. | • 5 Medina Villas |
FRANCIS, Derek 1923-1984 |
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FRANCIS, Raymond 1911-1987 |
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FRANKISS, Betty 1912-1992 |
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• Valetta, 71 Dyke Road Avenue [residence] |
FRESHFIELD, Charles Kaye 1808-1891 |
After qualifying as a lawyer he joined the firm of Freshfields, founded by his father and was solicitor or the Bank of England 1840-1869 and the London Brighton & South Coast Railway until 1867. Pennant Lodge was built for him in 1851. He was member of parliament for Dover 1865-1868 and 1874-1885. A memorial in St Andrew's Church, Hove also names his wife Elizabeth Sims Freshfield (1813-1849) and his daughters Constance Emilie, Henrietta and Mary, all of whom also died in 1849. He is named along with his father on the grave of his sister, Anna Maria Freshfield (d 1848), in the churchyard. A window at St John's Church also commemorates his wife. | • Freshfield Place • Freshfield Road • Freshfield Street • Pennant Lodge, 30 West Drive [residence 1851-1868] • 9 Eastern Terrace [residence 1881-1889] • Collingwood House, 127 Marine Parade [final residence 1889-1891] |
FRIEND, Daniel (1816-1902) |
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• Highlands, Hamilton Road [residence 1871-1891] • Stonleigh, 153 Preston Road [residence 1891-1902] |
FRIESE GREENE, William 1855-1921 |
![]() His partnership with Collings ended on 1 May 1888 and Friese Greene lost his connection with Brighton as the studio at 69 Western Road, Hove was kept by Collings. Friese Greene was declared bankrupt in 1891. He sold the patent for his chronophotographic camera for £500 but the patent was not renewed and later lapsed in 1894. However, the validity of his 'master patent' was upheld in the USA in 1910. In July 1907, as the 'Inventor and Patentee of the Master Patent for Animated Photography', he petitioned the Privy Council for an extension of the term of 'the said Letters Patent' and a notice was published inviting anyone opposing the petition to enter a caveat. The 1893 patent he wanted to extend was a clever idea for creating back-projected moving photographic scenery in theatres but not the original 1888 patent. He certainly had a fertile mind and filed numerous patent applications during the 1890s and early 1900s for such ideas as inkless printing, measuring electrical currents, panoramic photography, X-rays, a cigar and pipe lighter and gun cartridges. One of his least known ideas was a precursor of optical sound recording. One of his most far-sighted was photo-typesetting, for which he sold the rights to a newspaper tycoon. His method for rapid printing of cigarette cards and for printing photographs in magazines were also exploited commercially. He was still undischarged from his 1891 bankruptcy when he was again declared bankrupt at Colchester in November 1903. In May 1904 at the Old Bailey, Friese Greene was found guilty of obtaining credit for £20 and upwards without disclosing that he was an undischarged bankrupt. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. By now Friese Greene was well on the way to developing a colour film process, with which he had been experimenting since 1898. In 1905 he moved to Brighton, renting a house at 24 Arundel Street and taking a 14-year lease on premises at 203a Western Road, Brighton, where he opened a photographic studio and charged 1s (5p) for a sitting. This was also the business address of his Original Cinematograph Company from 1905 and of the Natural Photography Studio Ltd, the company formed to develop his work in colour cinematography. He became part of a circle that included Captain Lascelles Davidson, Dr Benjamin Jumeaux, E F Grün and Otto Pfenninger. Through his association with Davidson and Jumeaux he had the use of a workshop in an outbuilding at the back of 20 Middle Street, Brighton. The building bears a plaque commemorating his original experiments in cinematography, which is incorrect. The address on his 1889 patent is in King's Road, Chelsea, and his famous first successful trial film was made in Hyde Park. Filmographies list a 'Brighton street scene' of 1888 in his name, for which evidence has not been found. How long he stayed in Middle Street is not known—details are sketchy but it was probably only months. Blame the error on the not always reliable biography, Friese-Greene: Closeup of an Inventor by Ray Allister. The plaque was unveiled in September 1951 by Michael Redgrave, one of the stars of the film The Magic Box based on the book. The growing family moved to 9 Worcester Villas, Hove in 1907. His work on colour films, a patent for which he applied in 1905, was overtaken by the efforts of G A Smith and Charles Urban with Kinemacolor. Lawsuits over colour cinematography patents ensued in 1912. After losing his case in the lower courts, Friese Greene's claim was finally upheld on appeal in the House of Lords. He was unable to exploit his advantage, however. Friese Greene left Hove in 1913 after he was made bankrupt for the third time. In 1915 he and his family, with three sons away on war service, were discovered to be living in considerable poverty. With financila help from some in the film industry, he lived the remainder of his life in London and continued to work on colour photography until his death, which occurred at a meeting of film distributors about the crisis facing the British industry, where he made an impassioned speech. Legend has it that he had 1s 10d (9p) in his pocket, romantically identified as the price of a cinema ticket. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery beneath a monument by Sir Edwin Lutyens, paid for by the film industry. It describes him simply as 'the inventor of kinematography'. |
• 24 Arundel Street [residence 1905-1907] • 20 Middle Street [workshop 1905] • 9 Worcester Villas* [residence 1907-1913] • 120 Western Road, Hove [studio 1887-1888] • 203a Western Road, Brighton [studio 1905-1913] |
FYFFE, William (Will) 1885-1947 |
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• White Walls, 13 Founthill Avenue, Saltdean [residence 1939- ] |
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