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1 - 12 of 165 for "herbert"

  • ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen , while the descendants of Lewis Anwyl (died 1605), retained his distinctive baptismal name. WILLIAM LEWIS ANWYL, J.P., D.L. (died 1642), high sheriff of Merioneth, 1610 and 1623, and of Caernarvonshire, 1636, a leader in public affairs, who purchased Llwyn, Dolgelley, rebuilt Park, and increased his estates fourfold by marriage with Elizabeth Herbert, a Montgomeryshire heiress, and his influence by the
  • AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer in the suppression of Welsh piracy and was privately retained as counsel (much to their advantage) by the Merchant Adventurers. Questions of jurisdiction in Wales, Ireland, and the Channel Islands were among those he resolved in the sphere of constitutional law, and he was brought into even more direct contact with politics when his kinsman and benefactor Henry Herbert, 2nd earl of Pembroke
  • BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet Brwynllys or ' Bronllys ' is near Talgarth. His extant work comprises much love poetry of the type which is characteristic of the followers of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with a smaller number of religious and eulogistic poems including an elegy upon Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, 1469. There are also flyting poems between him and Ieuan Deulwyn and Hywel Dafi. He is said to have been buried at
  • BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician 'Bert' Bowden was born in Cardiff on 20 January 1905, the eldest of the eleven children of Herbert Henwood Bowden, a baker of 16 Taff Embankment, and his wife, Henrietta Gould. He attended a primary school and took night classes while working as a shop assistant. After the failure of his tobacconist business, he moved in 1933 to Leicester where he worked as a radio salesman. At an early age
  • BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), This note will concern itself only with the Welsh associations of this influential family, whose main seat is in the Island of Bute, Scotland. WILLIAM HERBERT (died 1570) The son and heir of Richard Herbert of Ewyas, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea, was created baron Herbert of Cardiff and earl of Pembroke in 1551. The Herberts earls of Pembroke (of the second
  • CADWALADR ap RHYS TREFNANT (fl. 1600), poet Very little is known of him, and very little of his work is extant. His poetical compositions are mainly addressed to members of Montgomeryshire families; we have one to Sir Edward Herbert, lord of Powys, and some others to Huw ap Iefan of Mathafarn and Lewys Gwyn.
  • CHAPPELL, EDGAR LEYSHON (1879 - 1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer Born 8 April 1879 at Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, son of Alfred Chappell and Ellen Watkins. Trained for the teaching profession at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, he was for a time headmaster of Rhiw-fawr school, Pontardawe. In 1912 he joined Professor Herbert Stanley Jevons as a research assistant in economics, work which involved travelling and lecturing in
  • CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician demand not only at concerts and eisteddfodau but also at the Gregynog Festival in the 1930s. He accompanied many of Wales's best known singers. In 1926 he accompanied Dora Herbert Jones and Owen Bryngwyn on some of the earliest electrical recordings made by HMV, and later played for artists such as the bass Richard Rees. He accompanied a performance of Brahms' Requiem at the National Eisteddfod in
  • CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector Lady Henrietta Clive (née Herbert) was the daughter of Henry Arthur Herbert (Herbert), first earl of Powis (second creation) and his wife Barbara Herbert (née Herbert, 1735-1786). Henrietta was born on 3 September 1758 at her father's principal residence Oakley Park, at Bromfield, near Ludlow in Shropshire. The only sibling who reached maturity was her elder brother George Edward Henry Arthur
  • CORY family (died 1909), daughter of John Beynon, colliery proprietor, Newport, Monmouth, by whom he had one daughter, FLORENCE MARGARET CORY, of The Duffryn, S. Nicholas, lady of the manor, and patron of the living (died 11 November 1936), and three sons: (1) HERBERT B. CORY (died 1927); (2) SIR CLIFFORD JOHN CORY, Bart., president of the South Wales Coalowners' Association, 1906 (died 3 February 1941); and (3
  • CORY family . After being master of coasting and foreign-going ships he came to Cardiff as a shipbroker and shipowner in 1872, i.e. some years after Richard Cory (founder of the firm of ' Cory Brothers') had arrived from Bideford, Devon. With his two sons, John and James Herbert, he established the firm of ' John Cory, Sons and Co. ', which owned at the time of his death twenty-one steamers with another three large
  • CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales imprisoned by him, at Swansea, and another seeking to be reconciled to him (Lewis and Jones, Mynegai). He was twice married - first to Alice, daughter of Philip Mansel of Oxwich castle, and second to Katherine Gordon, widow of Perkin Warbeck. By his first wife he had a daughter, Margaret, who married Richard Herbert of Ewyas, Herefordshire, and became the mother of William Herbert, who was created earl of