Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HAYDEN, HENRY SAMUEL (1805 - 1860), organist
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician encouraged, for each development, the commissioning of over 70 works of modern art by artists such as Henry Moore ('Two-piece reclining figure number 3'), Siegfried Charoux ('Neighbours') and others. Many of these pieces survive to this day, accessible to all. Hayward was a mild mannered and almost diffident man, avoiding publicity and allowing others to take credit for the council's work. A man of
HENRY ab ARTHEN (d. 1163), scholar - see SULIEN
BERRY, HENRY SEYMOUR (1877 - 1928) - see BERRY
HENRY TUDOR - see HENRY VII
HENRY (1457 - 1509), king of England Born in Pembroke castle, 28 January 1457, posthumous son of Edmund Tudor by Margaret Beaufort, sole inheritrix of the Lancastrian claim to the throne, and nephew of Jasper Tudor. Henry was descended through his grandfather, Owain Tudur, from former Welsh royal families; these ties were reinforced by his marriage, on 18 January 1486, with Elizabeth of York, herself a lineal descendant of Llywelyn
HENRY, DAVID (Myrddin Wyllt; 1816 - 1873), Independent minister and folk poet David Henry was born at Llethri, Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, 27 January 1816, the son of Thomas and Barbara Henry, members of Pen-y-graig Independent chapel. He was admitted to membership of that cause when very young. At 12 years of age he was apprenticed to his father as a tailor, and he worked for a time as an itinerant tailor in the south Wales valleys, settling in Maesteg, Glamorganshire
HENRY, JOHN (1859 - 1914), musician
HENRY, MATTHEW (1662 - 1714), minister - see HENRY, PHILIP
HENRY, PHILIP (1631 - 1696), Presbyterian minister and diarist Iscoed; he became attached to the presbytery nearest to him in Shropshire, Bradford North, and in September 1657, he submitted to Presbyterian ordination. Unfortunately, those days of religious anarchy were not very auspicious for the full working of the Presbyterian system, and Henry saw no objection to entering, like Baxter and others, into voluntary associations in north-eastern Wales with
HENRY, THOMAS (1734 - 1816), apothecary, physician, and chemist Born at Wrexham 26 October 1734, son of a schoolmaster there who hailed from Antrim. He was apprenticed to a Wrexham apothecary, became assistant to an apothecary at Oxford, and finally set up as apothecary and physician at Manchester. He published several papers on chemistry and medicine, and in 1775 was elected F.R.S.; he died 18 June 1816.He was the father of the famous chemist WILLIAM HENRY
HENRY, WILLIAM (1774 - 1836), chemist - see HENRY, THOMAS

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