Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), for Charles I, whom he once entertained there, during the Civil War, but was forced to surrender to Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2 October 1644. His wife was Eleanor, third daughter of the earl of Northumberland. A protégé of the earl of Pembroke (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 70), his Romanist leanings did not embarrass him, but in later life he appears to have grown
HERBERT family Northumberland), who had interests on the Welsh border and a strong Welsh element (including a Herbert) in his household. (L. & P. Henry VIII, xv, 355, etc., Addenda, 415). He took part in Somerset's trial (December 1551) and was rewarded with his Wiltshire estates. On 8 April 1550, he was made president of the Council at Ludlow, and in October 1551, baron Herbert of Cardiff and earl of Pembroke. He supported
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer , especially of divinity, and of alchemy and astrology (on which he corresponded with John Dee), and was well versed in the classics. He married Florentia, daughter of William Morgan of Llantarnam (died 1582), his father's colleague in the representation of the shire and father of his own colleague. He leased Newport castle (26 October 1578) and Elizabeth made him deputy constable of Conway castle (8 July
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (d. 1469), soldier and statesman Walter, lord Ferrers of Chartley. After the battle of Northampton (July 1460) Warwick gave him extensive authority in South Wales. In October he represented Hereford in Parliament. Henceforth he threw in his lot with the Yorkists, and this largely explains their victory at Mortimer's Cross (2 February 1461). His rise in royal favour was now rapid. He was made a privy chancellor, and was present at
HERKOMER, Sir HUBERT von (1849 - 1914), painter, designer and film pioneer German citizenship and he and Maggie were married in Landsberg on 2 September 1889. They had two children, Lorenz Hans Lawrence (1889-1922) and Gwenddydd (1893-1927). Following a stream of RA exhibitions and several international accolades, Herkomer was elected Royal Academician in 1890. In the following years, he experimented with printing techniques and invented his own reproduction method
HERRING, JOHN (1789 - 1832), Baptist minister Born in the parish of Trallwng, Brecknock, 8 February 1789, but brought up in the adjoining parish of Llanyspyddyd. The family became somewhat poor after the death of the boy's father in 1793 but the position was improved when he had a step-father in 1800 and the family moved to Pen-y-cae, Monmouth. He was baptized at Tredegar in 1804, and began to preach in 1805. He settled in Bethania, Cardigan
HICKS, HENRY (1837 - 1899), physician and geologist asylum at Hendon, he is best known for his geological work and was, in turn, secretary (1890-2) and president (1896-8) of the Geological Society. He was awarded the society's Bigsby medal in 1883 and elected F.R.S. in 1885. In addition to a few medical papers Hicks wrote over sixty on geological subjects, mainly relating to the older rocks on the S. Davids district and in the Scottish highlands, the
HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil 7,941 tons, in 1830, over 12,000 tons, by 1846, it was over 35,000 tons. In 1826 John Hill sold out his interest to his brothers, Richard II and Anthony. Later, No. 8 furnace was built, which was said by Mushet, the great authority on iron manufacture, to be the largest in the world. Richard and Anthony continued as sole managers until the death of Richard in 1844, after which Anthony continued as
HILLS-JOHNES, Sir JAMES (1833 - 1919), general Born 20 August 1833, son of James Hills, Neechindipore, Bengal, India, and Charlotte, daughter of Angelo Savi. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Addiscombe. He entered the Bengal Artillery in 1853 and served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8, winning the Victoria Cross for saving his battery at the siege of Delhi. He served in the Abyssinian campaign, 1867-8, and the Lushai campaign, 1871-2
HOARE, Sir RICHARD COLT (1758 - 1838), 2nd baronet, historian and antiquary . Giraldo Cambrense Cum Annotationibus Davidis Poweli … (London, 1804) and The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. 1188, by Giraldus de Barri, translated into English, and illustrated with Views, Annotations, and a Life of Giraldus (2 vols. quarto, London, 1806). He visited Monmouthshire with archdeacon Coxe and contributed sixty-three drawings to Coxe's Tour, 1801. When in North Wales he
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher Wales in 1997. He married, 2 April 1953, Rhiannon Huws, daughter of the Rev. Llewellyn Caradog Huws, Gwauncaegurwen, and they had one son, Ceri. He died in Swansea on 11 March 2008. The new hall of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Millennium Centre in Cardiff was named Hoddinott Hall in recognition of his contribution to music in Wales.
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School 2,000 marks through destruction of his property. Not unnaturally, he complained that he was ground between upper and nether millstones, for Owain Glyndŵr's men had harried him, while Parliamentary legislation deprived him of the rights of Englishry. Accordingly, he induced Parliament (Rotuli Parliamentorum, iii, 590; Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1405-8, 245, 298) to petition the king not only to

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