Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
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
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
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher Alun Hoddinott was born in Bargoed on 11 August 1929, the son of a schoolteacher, Thomas Ivor Hoddinott, and his wife Gertrude (née Jones). The family moved to Gorseinon and he received his education at Gowerton Grammar School, which boasted a strong musical tradition. He began the violin at a young age and was one of the first members of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, formed in 1946. In
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier second biggest British-owned car maker, the attraction was the dealerships and the hire purchase opportunities that formed part of the package. With such a busy life it is perhaps not surprising he did not marry until 1951 at the age of 47, when he married Moira Thomas (b. 1924), a secretary in his Cardiff office from Maes-y-Cwmmer, not far from Pontllanfraith. They had a daughter and two sons, Jane b
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
HOLLAND family Berw, (Carreglwyd Deeds, i, 1750, 2109, 2113). He also took an active part in the public life of the island, being returned as M.P. for Anglesey in November 1584, and serving as sheriff in 1591 and 1599. He died 1 February 1600/01. His eldest son Rowland having died without issue, he was succeeded by his second son THOMAS. He is probably the ' Thomas Holland, of co. Anglesea, gent., S. Edmund Hall, matric. 3
HOLLAND family This surname was borne by so many families (all but one of them in North Wales) that a conspectus of them may prove useful, though few individuals among them call for notice. They all sprang from Lancashire, but it is now not so certain as was formerly thought what exactly was the connection between the two great clans of Welsh Hollands - neither of them (says Thomas Pennant) regarded with much
HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), poet and traveller Tudyr and the Queene, long since intended to her Maiden Majestie and now dedicated to the Invincible James, 1603; A Cypres Garland. For the Sacred Forehead of our late Soveraigne King James, 1625; commendatory verses to Farnaby's Canzonets, 1598; Ben Jonson's Sejanus, 1605; Bolton's Elements of Armory, 1610; Coryate's The Od-combian Banquet, 1611; Parthenia, 1611; Sir Thomas Hawkin's translation of
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 and advice of their father, and with another brother, THOMAS, as a partner in the undertaking, they erected their furnace and other necessary works at Penydarren, on the banks of the Morlais brook. They turned out from their works, over many years, manufactured iron in large quantities, and of the best quality. A mansion called Penydarren House was built on high ground on the opposite bank of the
HOOSON, ISAAC DANIEL (1880 - 1948), solicitor and poet Born 2 May 1880, at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Harriet Hooson. His father's family originally came from Cornwall. I. D. Hooson was educated at the Rhos board school and Ruabon grammar school. In 1897 he entered the service of Messrs Morris and Jones in Liverpool, where he stayed until 1904 when his father died. He was afterwards articled to a Wrexham solicitor and he

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