Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HANBURY family, industrialists first elected M.P. for Gloucester in 1701, and represented that city in three successive Parliaments. He was defeated in the election of 1715. He represented Monmouthshire from March 1720 until his death in 1734. On the reconstruction of the South Sea Company after its crash, he was elected one of the new directors. At first he was an ardent supporter of the Whig party, but later opposed Walpole on a
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, Commonwealth ' which procured his discharge from sequestration on 6 March 1650, and from the decimation tax of 1655. He returned (to live at Halton) after the birth abroad of his third son (the father of the future speaker) (v. infra), in 1651. Both he and William were fined by Parliament (£1,500 and £1,370 respectively), and both were nominated by Charles II for the still-born order of Knights of the Royal
HARDING, Sir JOHN DORNEY (1809 - 1868), Queen's Advocate knighted 24 March 1852. His Essay on the influence of Welsh Tradition upon European Literature, which secured a prize offered by the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society in 1838, was published in 1839. He died 24 November 1868 at the age of fifty-nine.
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) could write them down. He recited his cywydd on the Conwy Valley to his niece Daisy Roberts and her husband, when he was 98. Two of his brothers had emigrated to search for gold in Denver, Colorado. He died 15 March 1969 and was buried at the public cemetery, Trefriw.
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
HARRIES, ISAAC HARDING (d. c. 1868), Independent minister, and editor of periodicals , containing fierce attacks upon the practices of orthodox Wesleyanism; in October of the same year appeared (with Harries as editor) the first number of Figaro the Second, so called to distinguish it from the Figaro in Wales, published in the same city, 1835-6. This Figaro bore evidences of some kind of ability but it included such mordant satire and such insulting cartoons that it died between March and
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner 11119B). They had three children, Victoria Letitia, born March 1843, John, born March 1844 and Henry Harri Harries, born April 1846. He died from consumption on 16 June 1849 aged twenty-eight, and was buried three days later. JOHN HARRIES (c.1827 - 1863), doctor and cunning man Medicine Space and Aviation John Harries' other son, John Harries, (c.1827-1863) was the last of the renowned cunning-folk of
HARRIES, JOHN (1722 - 1788) Ambleston, early Methodist exhorter 1768 accusing the Brethren of 'taking away Mr. Howell Davies's people,' and Edward Oliver reports that Harries remonstrated vigorously with him in 1770 'for coming among their people, as he called them' - though the two men lodged together at Treddafydd after preaching together, amicably enough, 'in the Methodist Meeting House.' He died at Newport, Pembrokeshire, 7 March 1788, when (according to his
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint so it was that Samuel Hughes, 'of Tregunter,' became sheriff of his county in 1790. They had two daughers, AMELIA SOPHIA who died in 1794, and ELIZA ANNE HUGHES, who married firstly Roderick Gwynne, Buckland. He died 20 March 1808, and she married William Alexander Madocks, 2 April 1818.
HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary According to the pedigree which he himself supplied to Lewis Dwnn, he was the son of Owain ap Harri of Llanelly and Maud, daughter of Phillip ap John ap Thomas of ' Hendre Mor,' Gower. He was instituted into the rectory of Whitchurch in Cemais, Pembrokeshire, on 18 March 1584, on the presentation of George Owen of Henllys. He was also rector of Llanfihangel Penbedw in the same neighbourhood
HARTSHORN, VERNON (1872 - 1931), Labour leader, M.P., and Cabinet Minister 1931) put all such proposals on the shelf. He died 13 March 1931. There was nothing of the tub-thumper about Hartshorn; he was not a fluent speaker; what eloquence he had came as the climax of close and coherent argument. He never deluded his audience by crude denunciations of the employers, nor described, with flowery adjectives, impossible Utopias; he rather gave them food for thought, the hard
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor Agriculture of the County of Pembroke with Observations on the Means of its Improvements, is still valuable as a detailed survey of conditions at the time. It provides, for instance, the first record of an agricultural society in Pembrokeshire, founded in 1784. Hassall participated as a volunteer in lord Cawdor's march to Fishguard when the French landed in 1797, and was the first to meet Thomas Knox in the

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