Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books issued from the London press in large numbers, 1630-32. They included the Welsh - Latin dictionary of John Davies (1570? - 1644) of Mallwyd, the translation by Rowland Vaughan of the Practice of Piety, of bishop Lewis Bayly, and the Welsh quarto Bible 'of 1630, bound up with the Welsh Prayer Book and the psalter of Edmund Prys. He died, childless, in 1631. He impressed contemporaries as 'a man of
HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil Bacon, who had been granted the Plymouth works under his father's will, became of age, and agreed to surrender to Richard Hill I all his interest in the Plymouth works, and this he confirmed in 1803 when he was 24 years of age. Being now in full possession of the Plymouth works, he with his sons, Richard II and JOHN HILL, entered into an agreement with the Dowlais and Penydarren iron companies for the
HILLS-JOHNES, Sir JAMES (1833 - 1919), general , and was awarded the C.B. He fought also in the Afghanistan war, 1878-80, was made military governor of the Kabul, made K.C.B. in 1881, and advanced, in 1893, to G.C.B. Hills married, 1882, Charlotte, daughter and coheiress of John Johnes, Dolaucothi, Carmarthenshire; in 1883 he assumed, by royal licence, the additional name and arms of Johnes. He was honorary colonel of the 4th battalion of the
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal David Mervyn Himbury was born in Ystrad Mynach, Glamorganshire, on 22 July 1922. His father, Reginald Harry Himbury, had come to Wales from Rampisham in Dorset to seek work in the coal mines. He married Olwen Thomas, whose family lived in Aberystwyth; the Reverend Idris Thomas, a Baptist minister in Cefn-mawr, was her brother. Mervyn had a younger brother, John (1932-1970). Reginald Himbury was
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
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher composition. He came to general notice and was acknowledged as a very promising composer in 1954 when his Concerto for clarinet (op.3) was performed at the Cheltenham Music Festival by the celebrated clarinettist Gervase de Peyer and the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli. Although this neo-classical work has remained in the repertoire, Hoddinott subsequently developed a more intricate and personal style
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier Julian Hodge was born on 15 October 1904 in Camberwell, London, the second of seven children of Alfred Hodge, an English plumber and electrician, and his wife Jane Emily (née Simcock, d. 1946) from a middle-class family of lawyers and journalists with connections to Ireland. He had an elder brother Donald, and younger siblings Leonard, Eileen, John, Gerard, and Teresa. The family moved to Wales
HODGES, JOHN (1700? - 1777), cleric An entry in Cardiff MS. 4877 states that John Hodges, later rector of Wenvoe, Glamorganshire, was born in 1700. However, the following entry in Alumni Oxonienses probably relates to him: 'Hodges, John s. Thomas, of Abbey, co. Monmouth, pleb. Jesus Coll., matric. 6 April 1720, aged 18; B.A. 1723, M.A. 1726.' If this identification is correct, his date of birth must be placed in 1701 or 1702. He
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer admiration of John Gibson, a prominent supporter of women's rights and editor and owner of the Cambrian News. Subsequent historians of Wales have also seen her as 'one of the leading feminist pioneers of Victorian Wales' (Evans, p.100). After a letter of support to the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales in 1886, Hoggan appears to have played no further role in Wales's education scene
HOLLAND family Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
HOLLAND family affection. Hollands of Conway (A.) The clan whose origins are clearer includes (1) the Hollands of Conway. According to the chief authority on the Hollands, Bernard Holland, in his book The Hollands of Lancashire (see also A. S. Vaughan Thomas in the composite volume Hugh Holland, and his appendices), this clan derives from the noble family of Matthew de Holland (temp. king John) of Upholland, Lancashire
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

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