Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner ten years old, and then as a boarder at Haverfordwest grammar school until he was eighteen. It is not clear where he studied medicine - there are many conflicting accounts including suggestions that he had a practice in Harley Street, London, with his astrologer friend Robert Cross Smith (Raphael; 1795-1832), before returning to Caio to establish a practice when he was in his forties. However, his
HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary divers direct lynes to Brutus (London, 1604), The work was intended to show the fitness of James, as shown by his pedigree, to rule over all the countries of Great Britain. It was compiled at the request of Robert Holland, another Pembrokeshire clergyman, who supplied an introductory letter addressed to the king. Another book entitled The Well-sprynge of True Nobility is also attributed to George Owen
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, VI's reign (1548) and at the head of 500 men of Mid Wales against the French under Mary (1557), and receiving from him the lordship of Cherbury (1553). Through the Pembroke connection he gained the patronage of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester (uncle of Pembroke's wife), became keeper of Holt castle and the lordship of Bromfield and Yale in Denbighshire (1570), and, after the purchase of the lordship
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), enlarged Powis castle. He died 17 January 1848, under tragic circumstances, having been accidentally shot by his son, the Hon. Robert Charles Herbert, and was buried at Welshpool. His wife was Lucy (1793 - 1875), third daughter of James, 3rd duke of Montrose. His eldest son EDWARD JAMES (1818 - 1891) viscount Clive from 1839-48, succeeded him. Born 5 November 1818, he also was educated at Eton and S
HERBERT family to Sir Robert Mansel. His passion for field sports, pageantry, and building (which he carried on extensively at Wilton), together with his handsome person, won him the favour of James I, which he retained 'in the Second place' (as Clarendon puts it) after he had been supplanted as prime favourite by Carr. He was promptly admitted to the Privy Chamber (May 1603) and the Order of the Bath (28 July
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire erected as a memorial hall), Taliesin Mainwaring, Rees Llewellyn and Robert (Bob) Williams who fought unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in the Aberavon constituency in the 'Khaki' Election of 1918. Heycock came under the charisma of Ramsay MacDonald and his oratory as a socialist propagandist, and they celebrated in Port Talbot when he won the seat from the Liberals in November 1922. Later
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier .1953, Robert b.1955 and Jonathan b.1958. The family lived in turn in two of Wales's finest houses, White Lodge in Penylan and Tŷ Gwyn in Lisvane, former home of James Turner, the builder of City Hall and other buildings in Cardiff's Cathays Park. Though by the 1950s a prominent figure in south Wales business circles, Hodge first came to wider attention, as the defender of small shareholders, through
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927) Born at Brecon, 20 December 1843; her father was Richard Morgan, son of Robert Morgan of Henry's Mote, Pembrokeshire, who graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1830 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), and was at the time curate of S. John's, Brecon; her mother was a Philipps of Cwmgwili, Carmarthenshire. Morgan became vicar of Aberavon in 1845, but died in 1851. Elizabeth, educated on the continent
HOLLAND family Berw, inherited the Berw estate, and in August of the same year was appointed rector of Llangeinwen, Anglesey. He married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Holling, and (2) Mary, daughter of Mutton Davies of Gwysaney. He died towards the end of 1746; his will was proved 26 November 1746 (Carreglwyd Deeds, i, 2016). He was the last of the name to inherit the estate, as two sons had predeceased him. His sister
HOLLAND family Erskine; (b) but Hugh Gwyn Holland's younger sons did not remain at Conway. The fourth son, HENRY HOLLAND (died 1603), is interesting; he went up to S. John's College, Cambridge, but graduated (1580) from Magdalene, and took orders (D.N.B.; Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses). In 1590 he published A Treatise on Witchcraft, dedicated to Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, and three or four other books which show
HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), poet and traveller Born at Denbigh, son of Robert Holland of that town (see Holland families (6)). Hugh Holland was educated at Westminster School, under Camden, where he was distinguished for his classical scholarship. In 1589 he was elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge; he may have been elected later to a Fellowship. On leaving Cambridge he travelled abroad, visiting Rome and Jerusalem. At Rome
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator

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