Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT family known as 'the Welsh lord' and twitted with the need for an interpreter (Cecil. xvi 439), and despite his Welsh chaplains, tutors and servants - including George Herbert, Griffith Williams (later bishop of Ossory), and Evan Lloyd Jeffrey of Palé (herald, bard, and genealogist) - his direct contacts with Wales were much slighter than those of his predecessors. The Civil War revealed that the Pembroke
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer was the son of William Herbert of S. Julians, Monmouth, and great-grandson in the male line of Sir William Herbert (died 1469) 1st earl of Pembroke. His mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Griffith of Penrhyn, Caernarfonshire, from whom he inherited lands in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire to add to his Monmouthshire estates. Although apparently not a university man, he was a great student
HOLLAND family Berw, gone to his uncle, his mother's brother Owen (N.L.W. Carreg-lwyd Deeds, i, 2041, 2160, 2338). His name appears as a party to a lease of Berw Mills 18 December 1528, but he died before 15 April 1529 (Carreglwyd Deeds, i, 2023, 2211). Little is known of EDWARD, the son who succeeded. He married Elin, daughter of Rowland Griffith of Plas Newydd, Anglesey, and died before 1561. Their son, OWEN, the next
HOLLAND family , Flintshire, by marrying its heiress - the great-great-granddaughter of this couple brought Kinmel to her husband Sir John Carter. Other sons of Pyrs Holland of Kinmel were JOHN HOLLAND, father of WILLIAM HOLLAND of (8) WIGFAIR, S. Asaph - see J. E. Griffith, 102, and the index to Peter Roberts, Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd - and HUMPHREY HOLLAND (died 1612), who by marrying the heiress became Holland of (9) TEIRDAN
HOOSON, TOM ELLIS (1933 - 1985), Conservative politician 1959 when he stood against Goronwy O. Roberts, the sitting Labour MP. At the personal invitation of his party leader Margaret Thatcher, Hooson accepted the position of Director of Communications for the Conservative Party in 1976 and remained in the post for two years. He then became Director-General of the Periodical Publishers' Association in 1978. He captured Brecon and Radnor for the
HOWELLS, THOMAS (Hywel Cynon; 1839 - 1905), collier, printer, poet, preacher, and musician Born 12 October 1839, at Glyn Neath, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Rhymney and the son began to work as a collier's boy when he was only seven years old. Later, at Aberaman, whither the family had moved from Rhymney, he was able to receive some education and he began to attend an evening class conducted by the Rev. John Davies. In 1858 John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) came to Aberdare and Hywel
HUGHES, ARWEL (1909 - 1988), musician popular orchestral piece. He composed two notable choral works to libretti by his BBC colleague Aneirin Talfan Davies (1909-1980), namely Dewi Sant for the Festival of Britain in 1951, and Pantycelyn, which was performed at the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 1964. He also composed two operas which were performed by the Welsh National Opera: Menna (1954), to a libretto by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, which
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician , Hughes became a life peer and took the title of Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, of Holyhead in the Isle of Anglesey. When the Social Democratic Party was formed in 1981, Lord Cledwyn declined an invitation to join the new party. After the death of Lord Goronwy-Roberts in July 1981, Lord Cledwyn was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords; dissatisfaction with the leadership of Lord Peart
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public but entrusted the work to Glyn Roberts who had the research qualifications that were impossible for him to attain with his poor and deteriorating eyesight. He restricted himself to his own special field, namely that of the constitutional history of England in the Middle Ages. He prepared those lectures with the help of his wife, who read for him. He lectured to the first-year students on Europe
HUGHES, EVAN (d. 1800), cleric and author of the circulating schools begun by Griffith Jones, Llandowror, and wrote to Madam Bevan in 1773 to bear testimony to their success and to ask that the school at Llanfihangel-y-pennant be continued for a further period. His replies to the queries at a bishop's visitation in 1776 were very satisfactory - he normally had seventy communicants each month at Llanfihangel and nearly 200 at Easter. He was
HUGHES, EZEKIEL (1766 - 1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A. Jones (1726 - 1795) of Llangadfan. In mid-July 1795, he, Edward Bebb, George Roberts, and others left Llanbryn-mair and walked to Carmarthen and thence to Bristol; on the 6 August they sailed in the ' Maria ' for Philadelphia where they arrived on the 25 October After spending the winter in the city he, Edward Bebb, and one other set off in the spring on the long trail to the river Ohio. In three
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman ballad-singer Grace Roberts referred to the weakness of her body and to the 'great pain' which she suffered. It was not her physical appearance but her spiritual life which most engaged her contemporaries, however. The fact that she survived without food was a miracle in the eyes of the ballad-singers, and Elis Roberts (Elis y Cowper) set her alongside central Biblical characters who were saved from

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