Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary According to the pedigree which he himself supplied to Lewis Dwnn, he was the son of Owain ap Harri of Llanelly and Maud, daughter of Phillip ap John ap Thomas of ' Hendre Mor,' Gower. He was instituted into the rectory of Whitchurch in Cemais, Pembrokeshire, on 18 March 1584, on the presentation of George Owen of Henllys. He was also rector of Llanfihangel Penbedw in the same neighbourhood
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), earl figures prominently in the Morris Letters, being interested in Welsh mining ventures. He secured a lease of Esgair-mwyn lead mine in 1757, and Lewis Morris offered to work it for him. The Morris brothers hoped that the earl would secure preferment for Goronwy Owen who composed a cywydd in Welsh and Latin upon the birth of the heir in 1755. The 4th earl died 11 September 1772, and was buried at
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state The second son of Matthew Herbert of Swansea and grandson of Sir George Herbert, the first known M.P. for Glamorgan and the son of Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas, illegitimate son of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (see Herbert, earls of Pembroke). He was admitted an honorary member of the College of Advocates (November 1573), joint commissioner of the Court of Admiralty with Dr. David Lewis
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books issued from the London press in large numbers, 1630-32. They included the Welsh - Latin dictionary of John Davies (1570? - 1644) of Mallwyd, the translation by Rowland Vaughan of the Practice of Piety, of bishop Lewis Bayly, and the Welsh quarto Bible 'of 1630, bound up with the Welsh Prayer Book and the psalter of Edmund Prys. He died, childless, in 1631. He impressed contemporaries as 'a man of
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal received into membership of the church. His mother returned to become a member of the church at the same time. Mervyn Himbury was educated in the local primary school and in Lewis Pengam School (1933-41) before going to Cardiff University College in 1941 to read for a degree in history. A year later, he was accepted as a candidate for the Baptist ministry and registered as a theological student in
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier to his five younger siblings. His mother provided the early spur to success, encouraging his reading of classic books and poetry. On leaving Lewis School, Pengam at the age of thirteen, he settled into a job as a railway clerk with the Great Western Railway, which he joined in 1920 after working briefly in his uncle's chemist's shop in London. His elder brother had started in the pits. His hours
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
HOPCYN ap TOMAS (c. 1330 - 1403), gentleman neighbouring districts (see Hopkin, Lewis). There is no foundation for this; Iolo Morganwg was responsible for that theory.
HOPKIN, LEWIS (c. 1708 - 1771), poet Son of Lewis Hopkin of Llanbedr-ar-fynydd (Peterston-super-Montem), Glamorganshire, one of the descendants of Hopcyn Thomas Phylip, Gelli'r-fid, a writer of cwndidau. He learnt the craft of a carpenter; he became a master of other crafts also. When he was a young man he moved to the parish of Llandyfodwg and it was there, at Hendre Ifan Goch, that he made his home until he died in 1771. He became
HOWELL, DAVID (Llawdden; 1831 - 1903), dean Born 16 August 1831 at Tre-oes, Llan-gan, Glamorganshire. His father, JOHN HOWELL (died 1880), a farmer and a Calvinistic Methodist elder, was a man of active literary interests. Much of John Howell's poetry appeared in Y Drysorfa, between 1835 and 1845; a collected volume, Colofn y Bardd, was published in 1879. From 1851 till 1855 he was joint-editor of Y Cylchgrawn. He removed from Tre-oes to
HOWELL, DAVID (1797 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Waunbrics, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, 31 March 1797, son of Dafydd Howell. While still young he was received into the communion of the Bancyfelin society by Thomas Charles of Bala. In 1814 he went to Swansea as a tailor's apprentice. He became a member of Crug-glas church and began to preach there in 1817. In 1821 he was sent by his Connexion to Radnorshire as a missionary and he settled
HOWELL, GWILYM (1705 - 1775), almanac-maker and poet

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