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361 - 372 of 1282 for "政府工作报告──2026年2月8日在漯河市第八届人民代表大会第五次会议上漯河市人民政府市长 黄钫"

  • GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR (fl. 1130-1180), court poet that he was composing poetry before the latter's death in 1132. In one of the poems to Owain Gwynedd there are references to that prince's campaigns in South-west Wales in 1136-8, and in another there is a remarkable description of the battle of Tal Moelfre (1157). There is mention of a misunderstanding between Gwalchmai and Owain Gwynedd in one of these poems, and there is no extant elegy by him to
  • GWILYM ap IEUAN HEN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet Owain of Caereinion (Brogyntyn MS. 1 (128)), and Dafydd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion of Newtown (NLW MS 16B (206)), and other members of the ruling classes of his period. Brogyntyn MS. 2 (437b, 439b, 440b); Cwrtmawr MS 129B (158), Cwrtmawr MS 243B (141); NLW MS 16B (215).
  • GWILYM ap SEFNYN, poet elegy written upon the death (of the plague) of the poet's seven sons and three daughters. [ Gwilym ap Sefnyn was certainly of Llandygai. His name appears as witness to deeds in 1415 and 1417 - Penrhyn MSS. 221 and 311-2 in U.C.N.W. Library.
  • GWRTHEYRN ; he relates that the king received them in a kind manner and gave them the island which in their tongue is called ' Tanet.' Bede assigns this occurrence to the year 347 after the Passion of Christ - 'when Gratianus and Equitius were the rulers' (Mommsen, 171-2). This is much too early; as Stenton says (Anglo-Saxon England, 1), when S. Germanus visited Britain in 447 the Britons had not yet been
  • GWYN, FRANCIS (1648? - 1734), politician 1727 he sat in fifteen parliaments representing several constituencies, including Cardiff, 1685-7. A Tory and an intimate friend of Rochester, he held important offices and was secretary at war, 1713-14. He was appointed chamberlain of Brecon, 15 October 1681. By his marriage with Margaret, third daughter of Edmund Prideaux, he acquired the Ford Abbey estates in Devon. He died at Ford Abbey 2 June
  • GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor describes him as 'learned and a Wise man and a bountifull housekeeper.' He died, unmarried, in 1574, having 'gathered a great Estate' which he left to his brother and executor GRIFFITH, with provision in his will (1 June 1574, quoted Cal. of Wynn Papers, 54; Baker, Hist. of S. John's, i, 421-2; Barber and Lewis, Hist. of Friars School, 170-1) for £40 a year out of the Maenan estate to maintain three
  • GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, , 199-200, iv, 246-8 (pedigree 21 for Llanelwedd), and in Bradney, Monmouthshire, I, i, 408-9. RODERICK GWYNNE of Llanelwedd was sheriff of Radnorshire in 1633; he was a Cavalier and a commissioner of array. His daughter, SIBIL GWYNNE, married her kinsman GEORGE GWYNNE of Glanbrân (born 1623?), who in 1645 signed the proposals of peace made by the gentry of Carmarthenshire to Rowland Laugharne, and
  • GWYNNE, SACKVILLE (c. 1751 - 1794) A member of the great clan of Gwynne of Glanbrân, near Llandovery, whose mansion, destroyed by fire, now lies in ruin - for the family, see under Gwynne family of Llanelwedd. According to W. R. Williams (Old Wales, iii, 286-8), he was born c. 1751 - if so, the references to him (in Welsh books) as 'an old gentleman' are rather misleading. He married, in 1772 at Dublin and without his father's
  • HAINES, WILLIAM (1853 - 1922), local historian and bibliographer Born 24 May 1853, at Bryn, Penpergwm, Monmouthshire, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Haines. Educated at the grammar school, Abergavenny, he became a solicitor's clerk. He married (1) 1876, Clara Ann Rutherford (died 1880), of Rockhampton, Gloucestershire, and (2) Mary Nicholas (died 1944) of Llangibby, Monmouth, who shared her husband's literary interests. Haines collected an extensive library of
  • HALL, BENJAMIN (Lord Llanover), (1802 - 1867), politician and reformer Benjamin Hall, 1st Lord Llanover, was born in London on 8 November 1802, the eldest son of four of the industrialist Benjamin Hall (1778-1817) and his wife Charlotte (née Crawshay, 1784-1839). The family moved to live on the Aber-carn estate in Monmouthshire when Benjamin Hall was six years old. He attended Westminster School from 1814 to 1820, when he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, which
  • HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) Son of Benjamin Hall (1778 - 1817). Born 8 November 1802. He married, 4 December 1823, Augusta Waddington. Elected M.P. for the Monmouth boroughs in 1831 he was unseated on petition, but was again returned in 1832, and remained member until 1837 when he was transferred to Marylebone. He was created baronet in 1838, and in July 1855 became commissioner for works, the great clock of Westminster
  • HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician sons of this marriage, one succeeded to the title and the other was killed on active service when serving as a First Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, 11 May 1942, and (2) Alice Martha Walker, daughter of Ben Walker of Brinklow, Rugby, in 1964. She was a member of the Leicestershire County Council. He died in Leicester Hospital, 8 November 1965.