Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman (matriculated 10 October 1634), he was elected to the vacancy in the county seat in the Long Parliament caused by the death of Sir Charles Williams of Llangibby. Most of his family were Royalists, but his marriage to Mary, daughter of John Rudyard, grocer, of London (cousin to the opposition leader Sir Benjamin Rudyard), and perhaps an itch for the Raglan lands that had belonged to his ancestors, made him a
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer affairs of his county, both locally and in the 1593 Parliament, while keeping in touch with Irish affairs through his kinsman Charles Herbert (probably of Aston, see under Herbert of Montgomery), who had a 6,000 acre allotment in Kerry and also lived at Castle Island. His nomination for the Council of Ludlow (1591) by the 2nd earl of Pembroke does not seem to have taken effect. Of the three ambitions he
HERBERT, WILLIAM (1460 - 1491), earl of Pembroke, later earl of Huntingdon (March 1484). His wife was Mary, daughter of Richard, earl Rivers; they had one child, Elizabeth, who married Charles Somerset, earl of Worcester, ancestor of the dukes of Beaufort (see Somerset family).
HINDE, CHARLES THOMAS EDWARD (1820 - 1870), major general
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier , even though it was suggested the Roman Catholic Bute family had this idea in mind themselves, but there were also doubts in the Roman Catholic hierarchy whether with three large churches already, one of them, St. David's in Charles Street, already designated the metropolitan cathedral, the city needed a costly to maintain addition. His dedication to his faith won him, however, a papal knighthood. He
HODGES, JOHN (1700? - 1777), cleric the brothers Wesley in turn to preach in Wenvoe church, Charles in 1740 and John in July 1745. Hodges was present at the first three Methodist conferences held respectively in London in June 1744, at Bristol in August 1745, and again at Bristol in May 1746. When the countess of Huntingdon entertained the members of the first Methodist conference at her London house, and John Wesley preached the
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren Sir Charles Gould Morgan (see Morgan of Tredegar family), 1st bart., of Tredegar Park, and this enabled him to obtain a lease of mineral land of about 3,000 acres upon very cheap terms at Tredegar, in conjunction with Richard Fother-gill and Matthew Monkhouse (1800). Here again, as his brother did at Ebbw Vale, he was able to work off some of his superabundant energy by establishing the Tredegar
HOWELL, DAVID (Llawdden; 1831 - 1903), dean , and priest in 1856. From 1855 to 1859 he was a curate at Neath under his patron, by that time archdeacon Griffiths, and from 1857 to 1861 was secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society. He was appointed successively vicar of Pwllheli (1861), vicar of S. John's, Cardiff (1864), vicar of Wrexham (1875), and vicar of Gresford (1891). In 1877 he was given the degree of B.D. by the archbishop of
HOWELL, DAVID (1797 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Waunbrics, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, 31 March 1797, son of Dafydd Howell. While still young he was received into the communion of the Bancyfelin society by Thomas Charles of Bala. In 1814 he went to Swansea as a tailor's apprentice. He became a member of Crug-glas church and began to preach there in 1817. In 1821 he was sent by his Connexion to Radnorshire as a missionary and he settled
HOWELL, JAMES (1594? - 1666), author Fleet, where he remained a prisoner till 1651. In 1661 he was made historiographer royal as a reward for his support of Charles I. He was buried in the Temple church 3 November 1666. A monument erected to him was badly damaged during an air raid on May 10/11 1941, but most of the inscription on the tablet on the east wall is still legible. Howell was acquainted with such eminent writers and thinkers
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand Aberystwyth. Principal Thomas Charles Edwards offered to lend him the deficiency. However, by taking private pupils and assisting at the Old Bank School in the town he did not have to borrow but he never forgot the principal's generous offer. By the end of the session he had completed the London B.A. course, and took a teaching post in a private school in London. Before the end of a year there he was
HOWELL, THOMAS (1588 - 1646), bishop promotions at the hands of Charles I, especially his appointment to the see of Bristol in 1644 at a critical juncture in the royal fortunes, and by the tributes paid him by David Lloyd and Thomas Fuller, is that he was the most loyal of Anglicans (he was the last bishop to be consecrated in England for sixteen years).

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