Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint member of the Cymmrodorion Society. He died 26 September 1764; he was buried in the Tower. His wife (died May 1763) was Anne, daughter and co-heiress of his former neighbour Thomas Jones of Tredustan. Their daughter, ANNA MARIA HARRIS, married SAMUEL HUGHES (he was one of the witnesses of the marriage of Elizabeth, Howel Harris's daughter); to her was left the property of her uncle Thomas Harris; and
HARRIS, THOMAS (1705 - 1782) , is known as the husband of the famous actress Mary Darby ('Perdita ' - see D.N.B.); their daughter was born at Trevecka House and christened at Talgarth 25 October 1774. Mrs. Robinson ('Perdita has left an unflattering, 'warts and all' description of her father-in-law's person and habits in her autobiography, Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson written by herself (1803). He did little for her and
HARRIS, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1956), priest, Professor of Welsh, St. David's College, Lampeter Born 28 April 1884 at Pantysgallog, Dowlais, Glamorganshire, son of John and Anne Harris. He was educated at Merthyr Tydfil County School and St. David's College, Lampeter where he was Treharne and Senior Scholar, and English and Welsh (Creaton) Essay Prizeman. He graduated B.A. first-class honours in Welsh 1910, and proceeded to Jesus College Oxford as Meyrick Research Scholar in 1910. He gained
HARTLAND, EDWIN SIDNEY (1848 - 1927), one of the founders of the modern science of folklore Born at Islington, son of Edwin Joseph Hartland, a Congregational minister, and his wife Anne (née Corden Hulls). No particulars of his education are recorded. On 13 August 1873, he married Mary Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Morgan Rice Morgan, vicar of Llansamlet, Glamorganshire. Hartland came from Bristol to Swansea, and practised as a solicitor there from 1871 to 1890; in the latter year he
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician Isaac Hayward was born on 17 November 1884 in a two-bedroomed terraced house in King Street, Blaenafon, Monmouthshire, the third of five children to survive out of eight born to Thomas Hayward (1848-1925), engine fitter, and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née French, 1848-1925). He had two brothers and two sisters: Thomas, Elizabeth, Alice Louisa, and William Frederick. Isaac was raised a Baptist and
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), The Herbert earldom of Powis dates from 1674, when WILLIAM HERBERT (c.1626 - 1696), 3rd baron Powis, was created 1st earl. Sir EDWARD HERBERT (died 23 March 1595) Royalty and Society (buried at Welshpool), the second son of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke of the second creation, by Anne Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, had purchased the 'Red Castle' in Powis and its lordship from Edward
HERBERT family rapidly accumulated lands and offices in South Wales, including the lordships of Usk, Trelleck, and Caerleon, formerly part of the earldom of March, and one of the king's gifts to Anne Boleyn. He was also given the lands of Wilton monastery, Wiltshire, served in the Boulogne campaign of 1544 and in the defence of the Isle of Wight in 1545, and was given the right to keep thirty liveried retainers. As an
HERBERT, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Evangelical cleric August 1812, and with it held the curacy of Llanrhystud (1814) and the perpetual curacy of Rhyd-y-briw, Brecknock (1834). He married Mary Price of Felindre Uchaf, Llanfihangel Ystrad, and by her had five children: the eldest, William (1796 - 1893) followed him at Llansantffraed, where he was vicar from 1836-84, and the only daughter Mary, married David Parry (1794 - 1877), vicar of Llywel. David
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury Born 3 March 1583, at Eyton-on-Severn, son of Richard (died 1596 and Magdalen Herbert, of Montgomery. He entered University College, Oxford, in May 1596, married Mary Herbert in 1599, living at first in London but returning in 1605 to Montgomery where he was appointed magistrate and sheriff. In 1608 he made the first of many journeys to Europe which he describes so vividly in his Life, one of the
HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman (matriculated 10 October 1634), he was elected to the vacancy in the county seat in the Long Parliament caused by the death of Sir Charles Williams of Llangibby. Most of his family were Royalists, but his marriage to Mary, daughter of John Rudyard, grocer, of London (cousin to the opposition leader Sir Benjamin Rudyard), and perhaps an itch for the Raglan lands that had belonged to his ancestors, made him a
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer legislation of a puritanical character, and that of 1586, where his speech against Mary, Queen of Scots - the first speech on record by a Welsh member - resulted in his membership of a deputation to Elizabeth about her. Next year he took up as ' undertaker ' over 13,000 acres of forfeited Fitzgerald lands in Munster, paying a Crown rental of c. £200 a year and living (1586-7) at Castle Island, co. Kerry. He

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