Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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.
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren and, in June 1818, M.P. for the borough of Stafford. He died 22 May 1822 in London and was buried at Bassaleg. His eldest son, SAMUEL GEORGE HOMFRAY (born 7 December 1795, died 16 November 1882) was high sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1841 and alderman of Newport (and mayor 1854-5).
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure , the daughter of Sir George Hamer, CBE, of Llanidloes, a prominent and influential figure in the locality and a powerful Liberal in the politics of Montgomeryshire where he served as its Lord Lieutenant. There were to be two daughters of the marriage, Sioned and Lowri, both educated at the Welsh School at London, where their father became the chairman of the Governing Body. He had served in the Royal
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist born 3 November 1876, in Swansea, son of Joshua George, and Catherine (née Bowen) Howard. His father claimed to be a direct descendant of John Howard, the prison reformer. He lost his parents when a child. For some time he was brought up in his mother's family and later he was put into the Cottage Homes at Cockett near Swansea. As an adolescent, he was taken in by a collier and his wife, Thomas
HOWELLS, GEORGE (1871 - 1955), principal of Serampore College, India Born 11 May 1871 at Llandafal Farm, Cwm, Monmouthshire, the son of George William and Jane Howells. He received his early education at the Board School, Cwm, and later went to the Grammar School, Pengam. Having won the Ward Scholarship, he entered Regent's Park Baptist College, London. He graduated at the University of London, and then pursued his studies in Oxford at Mansfield and Jesus Colleges
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Humphreys Davies (1871-1926), Walter Ernest Llewelyn (1874-1941), and George (b. and d. 1877). She received some of her education as a child at school in Llangeitho, and then at various schools in Aberystwyth, London and Chester. She enrolled at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1892, spending three years there, but did not intend to read for a degree. In 1895, she went to London to keep

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