Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERRING, JOHN (1789 - 1832), Baptist minister , 1811, and it was there he died, 2 April 1832. Christmas Evans said that Herring had more of the attributes of a great preacher than anyone else in Wales. He was chairman of the south-west Wales Baptist Association, 1831-2, and the writer of the letter to the Churches on ' the state of religion in our midst '; he also edited Greal y Bedyddwyr.
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire . The artist Paul Thomas, of Barry, made a bust of him in 1977 when he retired which was placed in the Orangery, Margam Park. Forthright, tenacious, and deeply religious, Llewellyn Heycock had Calvinistic principles, a committed teetotaller, anti-smoking, upholder of the sanctity of the Lord's Day, and very suspicious of the mass media. He seldom appeared on television. The Western Mail often attacked
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books Heylin was apprenticed (26 April 1567) to Thomas Wade, a London merchant, was made free of the Ironmongers' Company (of which he twice became master) in 1584, became treasurer to the Muscovy Co. in 1623, and was elected alderman and sheriff in 1624. He made a considerable fortune, and used it in co-operation with Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631), to finance the publication of Welsh books, which
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
HILEY, FRANCIS (1781 - 1860), Baptist minister 1860. He incorporated eight churches. He was a mighty preacher and Christmas Evans said, on one occasion, that he would never preach after him. In the doctrinal discussions of the day he favoured the Higher Calvinism - a result of his sudden conversion - and in 1823 he published a booklet Golwg Ysgrythurol ar Iawn Crist, because the treatise in its original form had been rejected by Seren Gomer.
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
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 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 off duty were filled with the study of accountancy, much of it conducted in the spare room made available to him by a local Communist and his wife, Tom and Edith Evans, who offered some quiet away from the cramped family home. Qualifying in 1930 with the help of correspondence courses and night classes at Cardiff Technical College, this was the start of a journey that saw him, still a GWR employee
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

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