Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYNNE, RICHARD (1822 - 1907) - see GWYNNE
GWYNNE, RICHARD (1822 - 1907) - see GWYNNE
GWYNNE, ROBERT (JOHNS) (fl. 1568-1591), Roman Catholic missioner and writer suggested as the possible author of the savage marwnad on the death of William the Silent, also attributed to Richard Gwyn. In 1578, when no Romanist bishops were left at liberty in England, pope Gregory XIII conferred on him certain quasi-episcopal powers to bridge the gap. Nothing is known of his later life, except that he seems to have been alive in 1591.
HALL, BENJAMIN (1778 - 1817), industrialist Born 29 September 1778, elder son of Dr. Benjamin Hall, chancellor of Llandaff. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801), and called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1801. He married Charlotte, younger daughter of Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa, 16 December 1801. His father-in-law made him a partner when he purchased the Rhymney iron works (1803), presented him with the
HALL, RICHARD (1817 - 1866), poet
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, concentrated the whole complex of estates in the Fens branch. JOHN HANMER (1575 - 1629) Bishop of St Asaph (1624) and chaplain to James I (1615), was the grandson of Katherine Hanmer of Halton (great-grand-daughter of Sir David Hanmer, above), and of Richard ap David ap Howel Goch of Pentre-pant, Selattyn, near Oswestry - a descendant of the 12th cent, lords of Iâl and Ystrad Alun - whose sons took on the
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore - on him, see the article on his son, Richard Owen, in D.N.B. Robert was knighted 1603, was on the Council of the Marches, and was Master of the Mint, 1626-35 and 1643-9. In the Long Parliament (in which he sat for Herefordshire), he was on the Puritan side; a zealous Presbyterian and iconoclast, Pym's successor (1643) on the Committee of the Assembly of Divines, and president of the Radnorshire
HARRIES, EVAN (1786 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Ty'n-y-llan, Llan-wrtyd, Brecknock, 7 March 1786, son of Henry and Anne Harries and younger brother of William Harries of Trevecka. He married 1808, Maria, daughter of the Rev. Dafydd Parry of Llanwrtyd. In 1812, having been converted under the ministry of Ebenezer Richard, he joined the church at Pontrhyd-y-bere and began to preach in 1814. In 1818 he went to live at Brecon where he set
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint ; it may be noted too that Joseph Harris was one of the promoters of the pioneer Brecknockshire Agricultural Society in 1755. There are two references to him in the Morris Letters (i, 183, ii, 46 - the latter noting a guinea given by him to Goronwy Owen); another letter by Richard Morris (Y Cymmrodor, xlix, 963) refers to Harris's part in the standardization of weights and measures; and he was a
HARRISON, RICHARD (1743 - 1830), Wesleyan Methodist local preacher
HEMP, WILFRID JAMES (1882 - 1962), archaeologist served on a number of committees in Wales. He was awarded an honorary M.A. degree by the University of Wales in 1932. He was an authority on Welsh heraldry and one of that small band of archaeologists who set the study of prehistory in Wales on a sound footing during the first half of the twentieth century. He married Dulcia, daughter of Richard Assheton, in 1934, and in 1939 settled in Cricieth, where
HENRY (1457 - 1509), king of England August when Richard III, the last Yorkist monarch, is killed, and Henry proclaimed king in his place. It was now felt that Wales had recovered her old independence as foreordained in the vaticinations of the bards. Though he barely set foot in Wales after his accession, the king was not unmindful of his Welsh associations, and particular of his indebtedness to the men of South Wales. If only three

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