Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author Born at Glyndŵr, Mount Pleasant, Pontnewynydd, Monmouthshire on 23 March 1913, the youngest of the three daughters of James David Haycock, miner (known locally as Jim Pearce) and Alice Maud, née Perry (both natives of Monmouthshire). Educated at Cwm-ffrwd-oer primary school, Pontypool grammar school for girls and Cardiff Technical College (later Cardiff College of Art). Her skill as an
HENRY (1457 - 1509), king of England ap Iorwerth, and of the Mortimer family. Henry spent his early years in Wales, mainly under the tutelage of his uncle, Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke. After the final Lancastrian disaster of 1471, Henry and Jasper fled to Brittany where they remained until the epochmaking landing at Milford Haven 7 August 1485. The subsequent dramatic march to Shrewsbury led to the decisive victory of Bosworth, 22
HENRY, THOMAS (1734 - 1816), apothecary, physician, and chemist , M.D., F.R.S. (12 January 1774 - 2 September 1836), who formulated what is known as 'Henry's Law' and published an important treatise on chemistry. William, again, was the father of WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY, M.D., F.R.S. (31 March 1804 - 7 January 1892), friend of Dalton and noted chemist. The son and grandson were born at Manchester.
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, he showed open sympathy with Strafford, but was allowed on the outbreak of the Irish rebellion to go there with a troop of horse (March 1642). On the outbreak of civil war at home, he sat on the commission of array for Salop (where he had been a magistrate since 1634) - thereby forfeiting his seat at Westminster (12 September 1642) - raised (largely at his own expense) a troop of horse and 1,200
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 rapidly accumulated lands and offices in South Wales, including the lordships of Usk, Trelleck, and Caerleon, formerly part of the earldom of March, and one of the king's gifts to Anne Boleyn. He was also given the lands of Wilton monastery, Wiltshire, served in the Boulogne campaign of 1544 and in the defence of the Isle of Wight in 1545, and was given the right to keep thirty liveried retainers. As an
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury Born 3 March 1583, at Eyton-on-Severn, son of Richard (died 1596 and Magdalen Herbert, of Montgomery. He entered University College, Oxford, in May 1596, married Mary Herbert in 1599, living at first in London but returning in 1605 to Montgomery where he was appointed magistrate and sheriff. In 1608 he made the first of many journeys to Europe which he describes so vividly in his Life, one of the
HERBERT, GEORGE (1593 - 1633), cleric and poet Llandinam, a post which he retained until his death; and from 1626, when he was made a prebendary of Leighton Ecclesia by the bishop of Lincoln, his mind was bent on the priesthood. He married Jane Danvers in 1629 and the year after became rector of Fuggleston-cum-Bemerton in Wiltshire. He died and was buried at Bemerton 3 March 1633. His chief works are A Priest to the Temple, printed in Herbert's
HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman was the eldest son of William Herbert of Coldbrook, Monmouth, and sixth in descent from William Herbert (died 1469), 1st earl of Pembroke. His father, his great-grandfather, and his great-great-uncle Sir William Herbert (died 1593) had all represented Monmouthshire in Parliament and on 31 March 1642, after education at the Middle Temple (entered 24 June 1634) and at Magdalen Hall, Oxford
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state Ludlow (1602), and was away on his third Danish mission (September 1602-March 1603) when Elizabeth died James I continued him in his offices; he was a commissioner for the Scottish Union and for ecclesiastical causes in 1603 and on other commissions in 1608; but the king preferred in Cecil's absence to use unofficial secretaries like his favourite Philip Herbert, later 1st earl of Montgomery. Moreover
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer Herbert died (4 March 1593) before a start had been made, and during the six years that passed before the estates devolved on the future 1st lord Herbert of Cherbury, through his marriage with Sir William's daughter Mary, the project passed into oblivion. Sir William was also a patron of the poetaster Thomas Churchyard, who eulogizes him in his Worthines of Wales, 1587.
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (d. 1469), soldier and statesman Baynard's castle when the earl of March was proclaimed king as Edward IV (March 1461). At the coronation he became lord Herbert of Raglan (4 November). He was chief justice and chamberlain of South Wales. During the next few years Edward IV showered favours upon him 'to the secret displeasure of the earl of Warwick.' Having received the submission of Pembroke castle, a Lancastrian stronghold, Herbert was

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