Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, (died 1593), sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1603, and acquired, through his wife, Jane, daughter of Hugh ab Owen, the neighbouring estate of Aston. He was the father of Sir Edward Herbert (c. 1591 - 1657) (vide infra). Four of Richard Herbert's sons, Edward, George, Henry and Charles, became famous. The eldest Edward, 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury, is noticed separately. His son RICHARD HERBERT (c
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), his marriage to Barbara Herbert, 1751, it is said that arrangements were made for the eldest son and daughter to be brought up as members of the Church of England, and the younger children in their mother's faith. Two children only survived into majority, GEORGE EDWARD HENRY ARTHUR, who succeeded his father in 1772, and lady HENRIETTA ANTONIA, who married Edward, 2nd lord Clive, in 1784. The 4th
HERBERT family known as 'the Welsh lord' and twitted with the need for an interpreter (Cecil. xvi 439), and despite his Welsh chaplains, tutors and servants - including George Herbert, Griffith Williams (later bishop of Ossory), and Evan Lloyd Jeffrey of Palé (herald, bard, and genealogist) - his direct contacts with Wales were much slighter than those of his predecessors. The Civil War revealed that the Pembroke
HERBERT, GEORGE (1593 - 1633), cleric and poet Born in London 3 April 1593, the fifth son of Richard (died 1596) and Magdalen Herbert (see under Herbert of Montgomery). His father dying in 1596, he was left in the care of his mother; she lived for a time with her mother, lady Newport, at Eyton, then moved to Oxford, and from there to London. George was in the hands of a tutor until he entered Westminster School in 1605. From there he
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state The second son of Matthew Herbert of Swansea and grandson of Sir George Herbert, the first known M.P. for Glamorgan and the son of Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas, illegitimate son of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (see Herbert, earls of Pembroke). He was admitted an honorary member of the College of Advocates (November 1573), joint commissioner of the Court of Admiralty with Dr. David Lewis
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (d. 1469), soldier and statesman Chancellor, Warwick's brother, George, archbishop of York (June 1467). Next year (July 1468), Herbert was commissioned to reduce Harlech, still held by the Lancastrians; the castle surrendered in August. As his reward Herbert received the earldom of Pembroke (8 September). In a striking poem, Guto'r Glyn now appealed to Herbert to become a national leader and rid Wales of English officials. However, he was
HEYCOCK, GEORGE REES - see REES, GEORGE
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier grandees of the time, including not just James Callaghan, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and M.P. for the area in which Hodge's premises were located, and George Thomas a former Secretary of State for Wales in the neighbouring seat, but Sir Goronwy Daniel, Principal of University College Aberystwyth and a former Permanent Secretary, Sir Cennydd Traherne, KG, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Lord
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer successor, the New Hospital for Women, the following year - a post she held until 1878. Frances Morgan married fellow physician George Hoggan (1837-1891) on 1 April 1874 and for the next decade they ran a joint practice in London. Frances Hoggan, as she was thereafter known, published extensively alongside her husband on a range of topics including on the anatomy and physiology of lymph glands. Despite
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927) , decided to enter the medical profession, but found the London medical schools closed to her sex, and had to go to Zürich, where she took her M.D. in 1870 - the first British woman to receive a Continental degree in medicine, and the second woman graduate of Zürich. She began to practise (as a specialist in diseases of women and children) in London. She married (1874) George Hoggan, a medical man, and
HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), poet and traveller there reading at the libraries, and tradition associates his name with Balliol College. Later he lived in London after spending some years at the Inns of Court. After his travels he expected some preferment, and not getting it ' he grumbled out the rest of his life in visible discontent ' (Fuller). From his poems, especially his Cypress Garland, 1625, we learn that he found one patron in George
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator ; (6) Basilikon Doron, 1604, a translation of king James's work made with the assistance of George Owen Harry - this was intended to be the first part of a book including also Harry's Genealogy of the High and Mighty Prince (etc.), but Harry published that independently, in the same year.

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