Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT, WILLIAM (1796 - 1893), vicar - see HERBERT, DAVID
HERBERT, WILLIAM REGINALD (1841 - 1929), sportsman, huntsman and rider of racehorses Born 14 February 1841, eldest son of William Herbert, D.L., Clytha, and Frances, daughter of Edward Huddleston, Sawston Hall, Cambs. He received private tuition in France before enlisting with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. He took the additional name of Huddleston when he inherited Sawston Hall estate, 1920-21. Having taken an early interest in racehorses he was highly regarded as one of the
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire Born 12 August 1905 at 9 Alma Terrace, Taibach, Port Talbot, the son of William Heycock, a labourer in Port Talbot Docks and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Treharne). His family had migrated at the end of the eighteenth century from Worcestershire, and four generations of the Heycock family worked as miners in the Margam coalfield, and a number of them were involved in the rise of the Labour
HICKS, HENRY (1837 - 1899), physician and geologist Born at S. Davids, 26 May 1837, son of Thomas Hicks, surgeon, and Anne, daughter of William Griffiths, Carmarthen. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, London, and then practised at S. Davids; there he met J. W. Salter, who was engaged in palaeontological work for the geological survey, and acquired a liking for geology. Although remaining in practice, eventually becoming head of a private
HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil were minors, the estate was placed in Chancery, and the receiver, William Bacon, granted a lease of the Plymouth furnace for fifteen and a half years from Christmas Day 1786, to Richard Hill I, during the minority of Thomas Bacon; this was approved by the Court of Chancery. Hill entered into an arrangement with Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa, to supply the latter with pig-iron, and seeing the
HINDE, CHARLES THOMAS EDWARD (1820 - 1870), major general the second son of captain Jacob William Hinde of the 15th Hussars and Harriet, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Youde and grand-daughter of Jenkin Lloyd, of Clochfaen, Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, he was christened at Ruabon on 30 May 1820, his parents being described as being of Pen-y-bryn. In 1840 he entered the service of the East India Company. From 1853 to 1857 he served as a lieutenant colonel
HOBLEY, WILLIAM (1858 - 1933), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Gelli Ffrydau, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire, October 1858, son of William and Ann Mary Hobley. He was at two private schools in Caernarvon, kept by John Evans and by J. H. Bransby, and at fifteen entered Aberystwyth University College, where he remained for four years; he did not graduate. From Aberystwyth he went to the Bala Theological College; he was ordained in 1882 and became pastor
HOLLAND family that he was a Calvinist - an Anglican Puritan, as indeed his connection with Essex suggests. The third son, Robert Holland (separately noticed), moved to Pembrokeshire in 1591 and there founded the family of (2) the Hollands of WALWYN'S CASTLE, to which belonged William Holland. In later years, these Pembrokeshire Hollands migrated to England. One of the family was Sir THOMAS ERSKINE HOLLAND (1835
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator 1622. Holland had married Joan Meyler of Haverfordwest, and founded the Holland family of Walwyn's Castle; William Holland was a descendant of his. Holland published at least six books: (1) The Holie Historie of our Lord (etc.), 1592, a metrical paraphrase of the Gospel narrative; (2) Dau Gymro yn taring yn bell o'u gwlad, a dialogue against soothsayers and conjurers, conjecturally dated c. 1595, but
HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian Born at Haverfordwest 16 January 1711, son of Nicholas Holland, of the Hollands of Walwyn's Castle - see Holland families (2); Nicholas Holland was great-great-grandson of Robert Holland. According to Moravian tradition, William Holland was at Haverfordwest grammar school at the same time as bishop John Gambold; he does not seem to have been Welsh -speaking. Before 1732 he was in London, and had
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren commoners against the Dowlais Company, when the defendants again won. Homfray incurred £300 damages in the libel action brought against him by William Taitt of the Dowlais Company in 1807. In 1811, at the Hereford assizes, Homfray and his partners in the Penydarren iron-works again sued the Dowlais Company for fouling and choking the Morlais brook with cinders and slag. Samuel married Jane, daughter of
HOPE, WILLIAM (fl. 1765), itinerant bookseller and poet was an itinerant bookseller in that county. His own contribution to the book consisted of two englynion, a preface, a carol for 1764, a poem against avarice, and a poem in praise of poets. At the end of his section of the volume he calls himself 'William Hope, or the deaf poet.' The entry of the book under the year 1769 in Cambrian Bibliography is almost certainly a duplication of the entry under

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