Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOLLAND family . Pennant Ereithlyn, Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 24). A son of his, John Holland (sheriff of Anglesey in 1461), married Elinor, daughter of Ithel ap Hywel of Berw in Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesey, and founded the family of (4) Holland of Berw, separately noticed; DAVID HOLLANT I (b)(see J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 259); his eldest son, GRIFFITH HOLLAND, lived at (5
HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian , daughter of Thomas Delamotte and thus aunt to the first wife of David Mathias; the Fetter Lane Archives have an autobiography and letters of hers; they have also an interesting account by Holland of the state of religion in Wales between 1735 and 1747, and an incomplete journal of his travels in South Wales in 1746-7 - these documents were printed by Miss Elnith R. Griffiths in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren cannon, a foundry, forges, etc. (September 1782). The sons arrived with a number of workers from the Midlands and for a time all went well and their works were prosperous. But on account of a quarrel with Bacon, they transferred their lease to David Tanner in 1784. The same year the brothers together took a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district, and with the financial assistance
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure of the 'Lib-Lab' pact concluded between Prime Minister James Callaghan and Liberal Party leader David Steel in March 1977, a step which he grudgingly tolerated as a necessary evil. He even played an active role on the Liberal-Government Consultative Committee which, he felt, gave his party a much need opportunity to destroy the 'wilderness complex' disadvantage. Many within the ranks of the Liberal
HOOSON, TOM ELLIS (1933 - 1985), Conservative politician He was born on 16 March 1933, the son of David Maelor Hooson, a farmer, and his wife, Ursula Ellis Hooson. He was a cousin to Emlyn Hooson (born 1925), the former Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, 1962-79, and a grand-nephew to Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), the Liberal MP for Merionethshire, 1886-99, and to the Welsh poet I. D. Hooson (1880-1948). He was educated at Rhyl Grammar School and
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet remarried and had another son, Evan Pugh Hopkins, half-brother to Ben. He was educated at Tan-y-garreg Elementary School, where he learnt cynghanedd and began to compose verses under the guidance of the head-teacher, David Davies, and a local poet, John Rowlands, Dolebolion. Together with his fellow pupil, the writer Tom Hughes Jones, he began to compete in local eisteddfodau. He left school at the age of
HOWELL, DAVID (Llawdden; 1831 - 1903), dean Bryncwtyn, near Pen-coed, and his son David helped him on the farm. David Howell attracted the attention of John Griffiths (1820 - 1897), then rector of S. Mary Hill, who persuaded him to go to the 'Eagle School,' Cowbridge. He then went to a tutorial school at Merthyr from which he proceeded to the Llandaff church training college at Abergavenny. He was ordained deacon in 1855 by the bishop of Llandaff
HOWELL, DAVID (1797 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister
HOWELL, LLEWELYN DAVID (1812 - 1864), Congregational minister, author, and eisteddfodwr
HOWELL, THOMAS (1588 - 1646), bishop promotions at the hands of Charles I, especially his appointment to the see of Bristol in 1644 at a critical juncture in the royal fortunes, and by the tributes paid him by David Lloyd and Thomas Fuller, is that he was the most loyal of Anglicans (he was the last bishop to be consecrated in England for sixteen years).
HOWELL, WILLIAM (1740 - 1822), Arian minister and Academy tutor Born at Wincanton, Somerset, in 1740, the son of the Rev. William Howell of Birmingham. He was taught by his father and by Jenkin Jenkins of Llanfyllin. He went to Warrington Academy, 1759-60, and then to Carmarthen Academy, 1760-4, where according to the Cofiant he was a fellow-student of David Davis (Dafis Castellhywel, 1745 - 1827) He spent some time on the continent where he was in charge of
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician Born on 15 April 1925, the son of David John and Mary Blodwen Howells, of Brynglas, Ponterwyd, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Ponterwyd Primary School and Ardwyn Grammar School, before he returned to farm with his father. Howells and his parents used Welsh as their first language and they were closely involved in the cultural life of the village; David John Howells served as secretary of the

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