Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HENRY, WILLIAM CHARLES (1804 - 1892), chemist - see HENRY, THOMAS
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, The pre-eminence of the Herberts in Mid Wales dates from the settlement at Montgomery early in Henry VIII's reign, of the newly-knighted Sir RICHARD HERBERT (1468 - 1539), protagonist of the Tudor settlement in Mid Wales, son of the Yorkist Sir Richard of Coldbrook (executed with his brother William, 1st earl of Pembroke after the Lancastrian victory at Edgecote, 1469), and nephew of Sir Rhys ap
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), planned to press his claim to it. In politics he was a Tory. He was buried at Hendon, 28 October 1745, leaving by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Preston, two sons, WILLIAM, 3rd marquess, who died unmarried, aged about 50 in 1748, and EDWARD (died 1734), who had by his wife Henrietta, daughter of the 1st earl of Waldegrave, a posthumous daughter, BARBARA (1735 - 1786), who married HENRY ARTHUR
HERBERT family king, he entered the service of Sir Charles Somerset, 1st earl of Worcester, to whom most of the Welsh lands of the earldom of Pembroke had been transferred on his marriage to the 1st earl's daughter, and through his patron's influence he obtained preferment at the court of Henry VIII, which was accelerated after the king married Herbert's sister-in-law Catherine Parr (1543), when he was knighted and
HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (d. 1469), soldier and statesman given the custody of the young Henry, earl of Richmond, whom he betrothed in his will to his daughter Maud; he was made a K.G. (April 1462) and became a member of the king's Inner Council. The feud between Herbert and Warwick became embittered when Herbert's son and heir, William, was made lord Dunster (September 1466), and especially when Herbert accompanied the king to demand the Great Seal from the
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire Paddington. He worked on the railway all his life. In his spare time he immersed himself in the chapel culture, the activities of his union (the NUR), the classes of the National Council of Labour Colleges and Sunday school classes. He was influenced by the pioneers of the Labour Movement locally, among them Henry Davies (died 1927 and to whose memory the headquarters of the Taibach Labour Group were
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books singular goodness.' His portrait hangs in Ironmongers' Hall. With him ended the direct line of Heylin of Pentreheylin, the estate passing through the marriage of his daughter to the Niccols and the Congreves. His nephew Henry Heylin became the father of PETER HEYLIN (1599 - 1662), a theologian, who is noticed in D.N.B.
HICKS, HENRY (1837 - 1899), physician and geologist
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School compensate him in part by granting him some lands forfeited by a Welsh 'rebel,' but also to grant him Englishry despite the fact that he was Welsh ('entier Galois') in respect of both his parents. Remembering these facts, it is difficult to accept Stow's statement (in 1615) that Holbache afterwards interceded with Henry on Owain's behalf. Yet we know that Holbache did intercede on behalf of another
HOLLAND family Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
HOLLAND family . PETER HOLLAND, a servant of Henry IV, came to Conway, and his family became owners of Conway castle, of much of the town, and of lands outside it (see W. B. Lowe, The Heart of Northern Wales, i, 342-5; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 341; Archæologia Cambrensis, 1866, facing 183). With the sons of HUGH GWYN HOLLAND, who had married Jane Conway of Bryneuryn and had died in 1585, this branch forks: (a) the

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