Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HAMER, Sir GEORGE FREDERICK (1885 - 1965), industrialist and public figure Kt., cr. 1955; C.B.E. 1948; Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire and Custos Rotulorum 1950-60; born 19 March 1885, son of Edward and Martha Hamer (née Matthews), Summerfield Park, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire; married Sybil Dorothy Vaughan Owen (High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1958), 3rd daughter of Dr. John Vaughan Owen and Emma Wigley Owen (née Davies), at St. Idloes parish church, Llanidloes on 1
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, surname Hanmer. One of these, MEREDITH HANMER (1543 - 1604), vicar of Hanmer (1574-84), with subsequent English and Irish preferments, acquired some fame as an ecclesiastical historian and a controversialist who entered the lists with the Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540 - 1581) - his life is given in D.N.B. Bishop Hanmer was born at Pentre-pant and christened at Selattyn (1 February 1575), inherited the
HANSON, CARL AUGUST (1872 - 1961), first head of the bindery at the National Library of Wales helped to establish. At the end of World War I he and a few friends formed a branch of the Labour Party and opened the first Co-operative Stores in the town. He took up his appointment at the National Library on 1 January 1912 and did not retire until 30 June 1959 when he celebrated his 87th birthday! He died 26 September 1961 and was buried in Llangorwen churchyard, Clarach.
HARRI, EDWARD (1752? - 1837), poet and weaver Born in Penderyn, Brecknock, but moved early in life to Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer. At the time of his death, 20 August 1837, at the age of eighty-five, he had been a member of Hen-Dŷ-Cwrdd Unitarian church, Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer, for 60 years. He had been married for 50 years; four children survived him. At one period the church paid him ' Charity to Edward Harri 1/- '. The following item also appears in the
HARRIS, GRIFFITH (1811 - 1892), musician -tunes; the two collections are important as they include the early hymn-tunes which were sung during the religious revivals of the 18th century. He died 1 November 1892 and was buried in the Heol-y-dŵr (Water Street) chapel graveyard, Carmarthen.
HARRIS, JOHN (1704 - 1763) S. Kennox, Llawhaden, Methodist and Moravian exhorter who welcomed Howel Davies to the county; and he had charge of a group of societies in Little England.' But by 1747 he was at variance with the Methodists; they doubted his orthodoxy, and he disliked their enthusiastic transports. He ceased to attend Association meetings, and on 1 August was excommunicated by Howel Harris. According to a Moravian record (see Cymm., xlv, 34), he was then offered the
HARRISON, RICHARD (1743 - 1830), Wesleyan Methodist local preacher Born 1 October 1743. After his conversion in 1766, he became a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Society which met at the Octagon, Chester, then of the Bryngwyn society, and, finally, of the society which was formed at his house at Northop, Flintshire, sometime before 1774. By trade a weaver, he gave generously of his time to promoting Welsh Wesleyan Methodism in Denbighshire and Flintshire. He
HARRY, MILES (1700 - 1776), Baptist minister Born in Bedwellty parish, Monmouth, of good yeoman family, on 1 January 1700. He was baptized at Blaenau Gwent in 1724 and ordained there in 1729; in 1731 he was appointed assistant to his brother, JOHN HARRY, minister of the church. In 1732 he became the first minister of Pen-y-garn, Pontypool, and he held the charge until his death on 1 November 1776; there too he was buried. Miles Harry was
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician overseen by Hayward, and he ensured that the building of the Royal Festival Hall was completed on time and within budget. The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Rooms and Hayward Gallery (named after him in 1968) followed over the next 17 years. He also played a major part in the birth of the National Theatre after a long campaign to established it, awarding an LCC grant of £1 million. His vision also helped
HERBERT family himself) and in the promotion of colonial and industrial ventures; but he also developed his South Wales estates (witness the 'waterworks' at Trelleck, Monmouth) and cultivated the leaders of Welsh society (Cal. Wynn Papers, 598; Clarendon, Hist., i, 175; Hist. MSS. Com., Cecil, xvi, 190-1), thus wielding considerable electoral influence (especially in the shires and boroughs of Monmouth, Glamorgan
HODGES, JOHN (1700? - 1777), cleric was ordained deacon on 20 November 1724, by the bishop of Oxford, and priest on 11 July 1825, by the bishop of Bristol; on 1 July 1725, Sir Edmond Thomas, Bt., presented him to the rectory of Wenvoe, to which he was admitted on 16 July following. From at least 1740 on, Hodges also held the donative of S. Andrews Minor. The Methodist Revival evoked a sympathetic response in Hodges, who invited both
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

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