Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYNFARDD BRYCHEINIOG (fl. c. 1180), poet the former. The awdl to the lord Rhys could have been written any time after 1172, the year when Henry II met Rhys ap Gruffydd and created him justiciar of South Wales and so a ' lord '. The awdl may have been composed in the year 1176, when the 'eisteddfod' took place at Cardigan, but there is no certainty about this; it may have been written at a later date.
GWYNNE family Kilvey daughter. When his friends applied for a pension for him in 1891 they pointed out that he had spent all his savings educating his sons. He died at Langland, 28 November 1907, and was buried in Oystermouth cemetery. Two sons achieved national fame: Rt. Rev. LLEWELLYN HENRY GWYNNE (1863 - 1957), bishop, Religion C.M.G. 1917; C.B.E. 1919; D.D. Glasgow 1919; LL.D. Cambridge, 1920; born Kilvey, 11 June 1863
GWYNNE, NADOLIG XIMENES (1832 - 1920), soldier and author Nadolig Ximenes Gwynne was born on 25 December 1832 at Glanbrân in the parish of Llanfair-ar-y-bryn, Carmarthenshire, the fifth of seven children of Lt-Col Sackville Henry Frederick Gwynne (1778-1836), the heir of Sackville Gwynne of Glanbrân, and his second wife, Sarah Antoinette (née Ximenes, or Simes, 1792-1888). His date of birth and his mother's maiden name account for his distinctive full
GWYNNETH, JOHN (1490? - 1562?), Roman Catholic priest and musician ordained, and held livings successively in Cheapside, London, and at Luton. At the same time he held the sinecure rectory of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire, to which he had been presented by Henry VIII. Although he had difficulty in getting himself instituted and subsequently was a complainant twice in chancery suits and once in the court of star chamber, over questions of tithe and other emoluments of
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume with men like Henry Brinley Richards and Dr Joseph Parry. She commissioned harps to be gifted to deserving harpists, but also to gentry families and even the young Prince Albert, who was presented with a Welsh harp and a performance on it at Buckingham Palace in July 1843. Lady Llanover's advocacy of the triple harp was part of her concern for the continuation of Welsh folk traditions as part of
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore their chief seat, though not in Wales, lies immediately outside north-east Radnorshire, and they were for a long time dominant in Radnorshire politics. Further, Brampton Bryan was, for a short period, an important focus of early Welsh Puritanism. The Brampton family, said to have been domiciled there (on Mortimer land) as early as Henry I, emerges from obscurity with a Brian de Brampton, temp
HARRIES, EVAN (1786 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Ty'n-y-llan, Llan-wrtyd, Brecknock, 7 March 1786, son of Henry and Anne Harries and younger brother of William Harries of Trevecka. He married 1808, Maria, daughter of the Rev. Dafydd Parry of Llanwrtyd. In 1812, having been converted under the ministry of Ebenezer Richard, he joined the church at Pontrhyd-y-bere and began to preach in 1814. In 1818 he went to live at Brecon where he set
HARRIES, HENRY (d. 1862), astrologer, medicine-man, and conjurer Son of JOHN HARRIES, Pant-coy, Cwrt-y-cadno, Carmarthenshire. Henry Harries and his father (who died in 1839) are considered to be among the most famous of Welsh conjurers of modern times; they are known to have been consulted by people from all over South Wales and the borderland. The father had received a formal education considerably in advance of the community in which he found himself, while
HARRIES, HENRY GWYNNE (1821 - 1849), medical practitioner - see HARRIES, JOHN
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner John Harries (Shon Harri Shon) was probably born at Pantycoy (Pant-coi), Cwrt-y-cadno, Carmarthenshire, and was baptised at Caeo on 10 April 1785. He was the eldest of the six children of Henry Jones (Harry John, Harry Shon), Pantycoy (1739-1805), a mason, and his wife Mary Wilkins. He received a relatively formal education, educated at The Cowings, Commercial Private Academy, Caio, until he was
HARRIS, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1956), priest, Professor of Welsh, St. David's College, Lampeter

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