Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector . The British Museum received her eighteenth-century fans, playing cards and board games. In five folio volumes, she described her many fans, fan leaves and cards, Fan and Fan leaves (1888-90), Playing Cards of Various Ages and Countries (1892-5), the final volume was published posthumously, edited by her collaborator Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British Museum. In 1891 she became the first
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard if he is the author of the cywyddau to Sir Richard Gethin and Mathau Goch then it must be presumed that he started to write a little earlier, i.e. c. 1432-5. Guto'r Glyn was, according to Tudur Aled, the best bard for composing poems to men; the bard himself says, 'ac erioed prydydd gŵr wyf.' He knew how to praise; he also knew how to satirize as is shown by his biting references to Dafydd ab
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist older than 1470. True, some of his own panegyrics can be dated 1462-5, and no doubt his love-poems belong to his early life, but the greater part of his work falls between 1470 and 1500. Eleven of his elegies can be definitely dated between 1476 and 1498, and all his poems to Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth, abbot of Llanegwestl (Valle Crucis), must needs belong to the years before Dafydd's election in
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel younger son, RODBERICK GWYNNE (a misalignment at the top of page 270 in vol. iv of Theophilus Jones, op. cit., has made nonsense of the pedigree at this point), who was destined in 1734 to become, by bequest, owner of Glanbrân itself. The heir of Garth and Llanelwedd, as has just been said, was MARMADUKE GWYNNE (1694? - 1769). He entered Jesus College, Oxford 5 May 1710, aged sixteen, and Lincoln's Inn
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) Born 9 July 1866 at Nant-isaf (from which he took his bardic name), Bwlch-nant-yr-heyrn, Llanrwst, Denbighshire, the fifth of nine children (5 daughters and 4 sons) of John and Sarah Ann Harker. His great-grandfather, James Harker, had moved from Lancashire to work in the leadmine at Nant in the middle of the eighteenth century, but the family had come from Cornwall originally. He received only
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore author of some religious books. Of Sir Edward's four sons, the second, EDWARD (1664 - 1735), wrote religious works. The eldest, Sir ROBERT HARLEY (1661 - 1724), afterwards earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1711), born in London 5 December 1661, was, of course, by far the most famous member of the family - Member of Parliament for Radnor borough, 1690-1711, thrice Speaker, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1710
HARRIES, ISAAC HARDING (d. c. 1868), Independent minister, and editor of periodicals The date and place of his birth are uncertain, but he began preaching at Beaufort in Brecknock, went to the Neuadd-lwyd Academy, and was minister at Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, 1831-5. At this period he delivered eloquent addresses on behalf of the Bible Society; one of these was published, together with Sylwedd Pregeth under the same cover, at Caernarvon (72 pp. printed by Peter Evans). Early
HENRY, PHILIP (1631 - 1696), Presbyterian minister and diarist his diaries testify to the many schemes resorted to, some comparatively innocent, others depending upon discovering loopholes in the laws, to evade the disabilities of the Clarendon Code. He held out bravely until the Indulgence of 1687, except for the short interlude of freedom in 1672-5. As a high-principled Presbyterian he had little sympathy with declarations of indulgence or with conditional
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), enlarged Powis castle. He died 17 January 1848, under tragic circumstances, having been accidentally shot by his son, the Hon. Robert Charles Herbert, and was buried at Welshpool. His wife was Lucy (1793 - 1875), third daughter of James, 3rd duke of Montrose. His eldest son EDWARD JAMES (1818 - 1891) viscount Clive from 1839-48, succeeded him. Born 5 November 1818, he also was educated at Eton and S
HERBERT, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Evangelical cleric Herbert was buried 5 December 1835 at Llansantffraed. His influence on his parishioners, after the Methodist secession in 1811, was considerable and effective. Particular tribute is paid to his penetrating mind, his gifts as a preacher, and his conciliatory power.
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (d. 1469), soldier and statesman Wales was overwhelming. However, he made his peace with the king and queen Margaret in 1452, and again at Leicester in 1457. During the next few years he was loyal to the Crown, and this partly explains the Yorkist panic at Ludford (12 October 1459). As a reward he received extensive grants from the confiscated estates of York and Warwick (5 February 1460). In 1459 he married Anne Devereux, sister of
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire into three counties, and his allegiance transferred to the new county of West Glamorgan. He became the first Chairman of the County Council (1973-5) (in 1962-3 he had served as the Chairman of the Glamorgan County Council, being the first man from Port Talbot to be so honoured) and there was an improvement in the attitude of the new county towards bilingual education. He gave a long, valuable service

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