Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary According to the pedigree which he himself supplied to Lewis Dwnn, he was the son of Owain ap Harri of Llanelly and Maud, daughter of Phillip ap John ap Thomas of ' Hendre Mor,' Gower. He was instituted into the rectory of Whitchurch in Cemais, Pembrokeshire, on 18 March 1584, on the presentation of George Owen of Henllys. He was also rector of Llanfihangel Penbedw in the same neighbourhood
HARRY, JOHN - see HARRIES, JOHN
HARRY, , minister - see HARRY, MILES
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
HAVARD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1889 - 1956), bishop Born 23 October 1889 at Neuadd Defynnog, Brecknockshire, 3rd son of William Havard, a deacon of Tabernacl (Congl.) chapel, Defynnog, and Gwen his wife. He was educated at Brecon county school; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (graduated B.A. 3rd-class honours in history, 1912); St. Michael's College, Llandaff; Jesus College, Oxford (M.A., 1921). He was ordained deacon by John Owen, Bishop
HAWYS (HAWISE) GADARN (1291 - ante 1353), baroness of Powys Daughter of Owen de la Pole by Joanna Corbet, and granddaughter of Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. As heiress of her only brother, Gruffydd, who died in 1309, she became a ward of the Crown, being given in marriage, together with the barony of Powys, to John Cherleton or Charlton in the same year. She had two sons - John, second lord Charlton of Powys, and Owen who died without issue. Hawise was probably
HENRY, JOHN (1859 - 1914), musician
HENRY, PHILIP (1631 - 1696), Presbyterian minister and diarist scholarship. Thus the whole atmosphere of Henry's early life was unmistakably Anglican; for all that, he became a convert to the Presbyterian way and outlook, seeing no hope of a relaxed and liberal Episcopalian system. After graduating B.A. (1651) and M.A. (1652) he was appointed tutor to the sons of judge John Puleston at Emral in English Maelor, and preacher at Worthenbury chapel in the parish of Bangor
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, honorary M.A. of Oxford University (21 February 1643). He compounded for £1,000 in 1647, and next year succeeded to his father's estates and titles (6 August 1648), dying on 13 May 1655, at Montgomery, where he lies buried in the church. His wife was Mary, daughter of John, 1st earl of Bridgewater, president of Wales 1631-42. His son EDWARD, 3rd baron Herbert of Cherbury (c. 1633 - 1678), married a
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), HERBERT (c.1703 - 1772) The 4th earl, son and heir by Dorothy, daughter of John Oldbury of London, merchant, of FRANCIS HERBERT of Dolguog and Oakley Park, who descended in the direct male line from Sir Richard Herbert, brother of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke (both executed, 1469), whose illegitimate son, Richard, was ancestor of both the earls of Pembroke and Montgomery and the marquesses of
HERBERT family , Sir John Price of Brecon, and other Welsh writers (Wood, Ath. Ox., i, 216, 418). HENRY HERBERT, 2nd earl Pembroke (c. 1534 - 1601) Eldest son of the 1st earl, was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He entered into his father's plans for lady Jane Grey, and was married (25 May 1553) to her sister Catherine, but divorced her (1554) after the plot failed, was made a K.B. (1553) and a member of the
HERBERT, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Evangelical cleric son of William Herbert and Judith his wife; born at Rhiwbren, Llanarth, Cardiganshire. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1790, and was ordained in January 1791 by John, bishop of Rochester. Returning to Wales, he became successively curate of Llanddeiniol, July 1796, and Llansantffraed, Cardiganshire, August 1801. He was preferred to the vicariate of the latter place in

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