Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), The Herbert earldom of Powis dates from 1674, when WILLIAM HERBERT (c.1626 - 1696), 3rd baron Powis, was created 1st earl. Sir EDWARD HERBERT (died 23 March 1595) Royalty and Society (buried at Welshpool), the second son of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke of the second creation, by Anne Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, had purchased the 'Red Castle' in Powis and its lordship from Edward
HERBERT family WILLIAM HERBERT, 1st earl of Pembroke of the second creation (c. 1501 - 1570) The eldest son of Sir Richard Herbert ('Ddu') of Ewyas, bastard of William Herbert (died 1469), earl of Pembroke of the first creation, his mother being the daughter of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea, Receiver of Glamorgan. After a wild youth, in the course of which he fought in France and won the favour of the French
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer legislation of a puritanical character, and that of 1586, where his speech against Mary, Queen of Scots - the first speech on record by a Welsh member - resulted in his membership of a deputation to Elizabeth about her. Next year he took up as ' undertaker ' over 13,000 acres of forfeited Fitzgerald lands in Munster, paying a Crown rental of c. £200 a year and living (1586-7) at Castle Island, co. Kerry. He
HERMAN, JOSEF (1911 - 2000), artist Josef Herman was born on 3 January 1911 in Warsaw, Poland, the eldest of the three children of David Herman (c.1873?-1942), a cobbler, and his wife, Sarah Krukman (c.1893?- 1942). Josef had a brother Shmiel and a sister Zelda. With a partner Emanuel Friedman, David owned a shoe factory which employed twenty or so workers. This partner took advantage of David's illiteracy and deceived him into
HIGGS, DANIEL (d. 1691), Puritan minister to surrender under the Act of September 1660 (12 Chas. II, c. 17), but he had already been nominated by the king to the rectory of Porteynon, swore the necessary oaths, and signed the S. Davids subscription book. But the 1662 Act of Uniformity was too much for him; in November of that year a new rector was settled there ' per nonconformitatem Danieli Higgs.' Thereafter he appeared considerably as a
HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil the huge loan was a great impediment for many years to the successful working of the concern. In 1806, the three furnaces at Plymouth produced 3,952 tons of pig-iron, while in 1815 the same three turned out 7,800 tons. A fourth furnace was erected at Plymouth and in 1819 the first furnace was erected at Dyffryn and c. 1824 two others were erected; like all the others these were worked by water-power
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier obliging him to take on prominent docksman and titan of Welsh sport, the former Glamorgan cricket captain and England cap, J. C. Clay. On the wider British stage, he challenged the directors of Rootes Motors, which was attempting to take over rival Singer Motors; Massey-Harris Ferguson, the Canadian tractor maker bidding for Standard Motors; and Beecham, which was seeking to buy the successful Porth soft
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator 1622. Holland had married Joan Meyler of Haverfordwest, and founded the Holland family of Walwyn's Castle; William Holland was a descendant of his. Holland published at least six books: (1) The Holie Historie of our Lord (etc.), 1592, a metrical paraphrase of the Gospel narrative; (2) Dau Gymro yn taring yn bell o'u gwlad, a dialogue against soothsayers and conjurers, conjecturally dated c. 1595, but
HOPCYN ap TOMAS (c. 1330 - 1403), gentleman
HOPKIN, LEWIS (c. 1708 - 1771), poet
HOWELL, DAVID (1797 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister , where he exercised great influence till his death, 4 August 1873; he was buried in Crug-glas graveyard. He was one of the chief Calvinistic Methodist leaders in Glamorgan throughout the 19th c. He was not a great preacher - he lacked fluency and his sermons were heavy - but he had a strong personality, and everyone considered him to be a devoted man of God. In addition to all this his energy and
HOWELL, JENKIN (1836 - 1902), printer, writer, musician many Welsh books, besides the newspaper Y Gweithiwr Cymreig which he owned and edited. He was an authority on the folklore and the dialect of eastern Glamorgan, and at the Pontypridd national eisteddfod of 1893 he shared with T. C. Evans the prize for an essay on ' Glamorgan Folklore.' Two years before his death, he began a series of articles, in Y Geninen, on the older history of the Aberdare Valley

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