Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOLLAND family that he was a Calvinist - an Anglican Puritan, as indeed his connection with Essex suggests. The third son, Robert Holland (separately noticed), moved to Pembrokeshire in 1591 and there founded the family of (2) the Hollands of WALWYN'S CASTLE, to which belonged William Holland. In later years, these Pembrokeshire Hollands migrated to England. One of the family was Sir THOMAS ERSKINE HOLLAND (1835
HOLLAND family Berw, so honoured about 1621-2. He succeeded in obtaining for the family a lease of the other moiety of the township of Ysgeifiog, with the mining rights appertaining thereto. He died 1643 or 1644, unmarried, and was succeeded by his nephew OWEN, a son of Owen (Sir Thomas's brother) and Mary, daughter of Michael Evans of Plas Llandyfrydog. He had married Jane, daughter of Pearce Lloyd of Llugwy, and by a
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator , Foster's Index of parish clergy (based on P.R.O. records) says that he was instituted at Prendergast 6 November 1591 (West Wales Records has another rector there in 1608), at Walwyn's Castle 5 March 1607/8, and in addition at Robeston West in 1612. He would seem to have died in 1622 - Foster has another incumbent at Robeston in 1622, and West Wales Records has another at Walwyn's Castle on 15 November
HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian Born at Haverfordwest 16 January 1711, son of Nicholas Holland, of the Hollands of Walwyn's Castle - see Holland families (2); Nicholas Holland was great-great-grandson of Robert Holland. According to Moravian tradition, William Holland was at Haverfordwest grammar school at the same time as bishop John Gambold; he does not seem to have been Welsh -speaking. Before 1732 he was in London, and had
HOOSON, ISAAC DANIEL (1880 - 1948), solicitor and poet Born 2 May 1880, at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Harriet Hooson. His father's family originally came from Cornwall. I. D. Hooson was educated at the Rhos board school and Ruabon grammar school. In 1897 he entered the service of Messrs Morris and Jones in Liverpool, where he stayed until 1904 when his father died. He was afterwards articled to a Wrexham solicitor and he
HOOSON, TOM ELLIS (1933 - 1985), Conservative politician Conservatives in the general election of 1979 and held the seat until his death on 8 May 1985 at his Chelsea, London home after a long battle against cancer. He was working, signing letters to his constituents, only hours before he died. His funeral service was held at Brecon Cathedral. He was regarded as reserved and as a lone operator at Westminster. He focussed his attention on the direct interests of his
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest Latin at University College Dublin in 1884. Hopkins had felt at home in the surroundings of what he called 'wild Wales', but found himself out of place in Ireland. His final burst of creativity came during this dark period towards the end of his life when he produced his gloomy and much admired 'terrible sonnets'. Gerard Manley Hopkins died of typhoid fever in Dublin on 8 June 1889, and was buried in
HOWELL, LLEWELYN DAVID (1812 - 1864), Congregational minister, author, and eisteddfodwr this society in 1842. He won a prize at the Utica eisteddfod, 2 January 1860, for an essay which was published the same year, at Rome, N.Y., under the title of Traithawd ar Ddechreuad a Chynnydd y Cymry yn Utica a'i Hamgylchoedd. He died 13 July 1864; a memoir, by Edward Davies, Waterville, was published in 1866.
HOWELLS, ELISEUS (1893 - 1969), minister (Presb.), and author The only child of Eliseus and Jane Howells of Cefn Cribwr, Glamorganshire. His father was killed in an explosion in the Slip colliery, Parc Tir Gwnter, Cefn Cribwr, in August 1892, and he was born 8 January 1893 in Augusta St., Ton Pentre, Rhondda, the home of his uncle, William Howells and his wife, by whom he was brought up. He was educated in Ton Pentre elementary and secondary schools and
HOWELLS, HOWELL (1750 - 1842), Methodist cleric January 1842, remained a staunch Methodist, frequently taking part in the ordaining of Methodist ministers. He was twice married (1) to Miss Thomas, daughter of the parish priest of Bonvilston and (2) to Miss Samuel of Cowbridge.
HOWELLS, MORGAN (1794 - 1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister carpenter. The vital importance of religion was brought home to him under the ministry of John Rees, minister of Gobaith (Hope) chapel, and he joined that church. He began to preach in 1815 and was ordained at the Llangeitho association, 1824. He was married twice: (1) to Mary Lewis, sister of Richard Lewis ('Dic Penderyn'), 1827 and (2) to Ann Morgan of Ebbw Vale, 1843. At the time of his second marriage
HUGHES, ANNIE HARRIET (Gwyneth Vaughan; 1852 - 1910), writer , gave her four children the best possible education; further, she took a most active part in public life. She died at Pwllheli 25 April 1910 and was buried (29 April) at Llanfihangel y Traethau. She wrote four novels: O Gorlannau'r Defaid, 1905; Plant y Gorthrwm, 1908; Cysgodau y Blynyddoedd Gynt (in Y Brython, 1907-8); and Troad y Rhod (unfinished - in Y Brython, 1909). She edited Welsh versions of

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