Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARRY, MILES (1700 - 1776), Baptist minister Born in Bedwellty parish, Monmouth, of good yeoman family, on 1 January 1700. He was baptized at Blaenau Gwent in 1724 and ordained there in 1729; in 1731 he was appointed assistant to his brother, JOHN HARRY, minister of the church. In 1732 he became the first minister of Pen-y-garn, Pontypool, and he held the charge until his death on 1 November 1776; there too he was buried. Miles Harry was
HARTMANN, EDWARD GEORGE (1912 - 1995), historian and promoter of Welsh-American relations Edward George Hartmann was born on 3 May 1912 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of Louis Hartmann (1877-1954) and his wife Catherine (née Jones-Davies, 1877-1940). Catherine was three years old when her family emigrated to the United States. Her father, Edward R. Jones, came from Penhernwenfach, near Llanwrtyd Wells, in Breconshire. Edward Hartmann recalled that Catherine's mother, Jane
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor latter's retreat from Fishguard. Using this opportunity to get even with the Knox family, he was instrumental in causing Knox to resign his command of the Fishguard Volunteers. Hassall became Major of Pioneers in the invasion scare of 1803 and secretary to the Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society in 1806. A capable and knowledgeable agriculturalist, he was on friendly terms with lord Milford, lord Cawdor
HATTON, ANN JULIA (Ann of Swansea; 1764 - 1838), poet and novelist Born 29 April 1764 at Worcester, the seventh child of Roger Kemble (see Siddons, Sarah) and Sarah Ward. Lameness prevented her from following the family theatrical tradition and, before she was nineteen, she was unlucky enough to marry and be forsaken by an adventurer named Curtis. She published by subscription, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (London, 1783). She married William Hatton in 1792
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician (father to Carole). It was through Hayward's union work that he became a close friend and colleague to Ernest Bevin and to Herbert Morrison. At their request he and his family moved to London in 1924. His union was by then known as the Power Workers Group within the TGWU, with Hayward as London district secretary, later General Secretary (1938-1946). At the same time a second strand of his career began
HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA (1793 - 1835), poet Born in Liverpool 25 September 1793, a daughter of George Browne, merchant. When she was seven her family moved to Gwrych, near Abergele, Denbighshire. Her education was patchy but she read avidly and her progress and development were so exceptional that she was able to publish her Juvenile Poems in 1808 shortly after her fourteenth birthday. These poems were not well received but from then on
HENRY (1457 - 1509), king of England ap Iorwerth, and of the Mortimer family. Henry spent his early years in Wales, mainly under the tutelage of his uncle, Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke. After the final Lancastrian disaster of 1471, Henry and Jasper fled to Brittany where they remained until the epochmaking landing at Milford Haven 7 August 1485. The subsequent dramatic march to Shrewsbury led to the decisive victory of Bosworth, 22
HENRY, JOHN (1859 - 1914), musician Born in 1859 at Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire, the son of Bennett Williams. He was brought up in a musical family. He joined the Caernarvon Volunteers band and when he was only thirteen years old became its conductor. Possessed of a good baritone voice he began to compete as a soloist when he was seventeen and won several prizes. When he was twenty-one he went to the Royal College of Music, London
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, partiality of his son-in-law the sheriff. He thus established for his family a domination of the parliamentary politics of the county which lasted till the Long Parliament, impaired only during the years (c. 1597-1629) when it had to be shared with the Powis Herberts, before their elevation to the peerage. Despite all this, and his position as squire of the body to queen Elizabeth, he was regarded as late
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS),
HERBERT family (1567) and lord steward of her household (1568). He further increased his estates by purchasing the Llantarnam monastic lands (many of which he leased to William Morgan, founder of the Morgan family of Llantarnam) and the lordship of Neath (1561); but he lost favour through his support of the proposed marriage of the duke of Norfolk to Mary, Queen of Scots, (1559). He died on 17 March 1570, and was
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

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