Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire Paddington. He worked on the railway all his life. In his spare time he immersed himself in the chapel culture, the activities of his union (the NUR), the classes of the National Council of Labour Colleges and Sunday school classes. He was influenced by the pioneers of the Labour Movement locally, among them Henry Davies (died 1927 and to whose memory the headquarters of the Taibach Labour Group were
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books singular goodness.' His portrait hangs in Ironmongers' Hall. With him ended the direct line of Heylin of Pentreheylin, the estate passing through the marriage of his daughter to the Niccols and the Congreves. His nephew Henry Heylin became the father of PETER HEYLIN (1599 - 1662), a theologian, who is noticed in D.N.B.
HICKS, HENRY (1837 - 1899), physician and geologist
HINDS, JOHN DARWIN VIVIAN (1922 - 1981), politician and community activist John Darwin Hinds was born on 28 December 1922 in Maerdy, Glamorganshire, and grew up on Morgan Street in Barry. His mother, Gwenllian (née Lloyd), born in Barry, was a resolute homemaker, and his father, Leonard Hinds (1887-1942), a merchant seaman turned coal miner, had come to the United Kingdom from Barbados. Leonard served as a fireman on merchant ships in the First World War and earned the
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer Frances Hoggan was the first Welsh woman to qualify as a medical doctor and a leading figure in the campaign to improve girls' education in Wales in the early 1880s. Born as Frances Morgan in Brecon on 20 December 1843, she was the eldest of five children of Georgiana Catherina (née Philipps) and Richard Morgan, curate of St. John's Priory, Brecon. She grew up Aberafan and, following her father's
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927) Born at Brecon, 20 December 1843; her father was Richard Morgan, son of Robert Morgan of Henry's Mote, Pembrokeshire, who graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1830 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), and was at the time curate of S. John's, Brecon; her mother was a Philipps of Cwmgwili, Carmarthenshire. Morgan became vicar of Aberavon in 1845, but died in 1851. Elizabeth, educated on the continent
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School compensate him in part by granting him some lands forfeited by a Welsh 'rebel,' but also to grant him Englishry despite the fact that he was Welsh ('entier Galois') in respect of both his parents. Remembering these facts, it is difficult to accept Stow's statement (in 1615) that Holbache afterwards interceded with Henry on Owain's behalf. Yet we know that Holbache did intercede on behalf of another
HOLLAND family . PETER HOLLAND, a servant of Henry IV, came to Conway, and his family became owners of Conway castle, of much of the town, and of lands outside it (see W. B. Lowe, The Heart of Northern Wales, i, 342-5; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 341; Archæologia Cambrensis, 1866, facing 183). With the sons of HUGH GWYN HOLLAND, who had married Jane Conway of Bryneuryn and had died in 1585, this branch forks: (a) the
HOLLAND family Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), poet and traveller attributed to Hugh Holland, probably due to a confusion with Henry Holland, the son of Philemon Holland. Hugh Holland of Denbigh was a scholar and poet well esteemed in his day; he was a member of the Mermaid Club and his sonnet to the first folio suggests that he may have known Shakespeare personally. Anthony Wood saw a copy of his epitaph, made by Holland himself - 'Miserimus peccator, musarum et
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren Sir Charles Gould Morgan (see Morgan of Tredegar family), 1st bart., of Tredegar Park, and this enabled him to obtain a lease of mineral land of about 3,000 acres upon very cheap terms at Tredegar, in conjunction with Richard Fother-gill and Matthew Monkhouse (1800). Here again, as his brother did at Ebbw Vale, he was able to work off some of his superabundant energy by establishing the Tredegar
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure give his support to Thorpe on the second, but he was never to be a strong supporter of Thorpe as party leader. Emlyn Hooson retained Montgomeryshire in five successive general elections, winning a handsome majority of 4651 votes in the election of February 1974. From 1966, when Elystan Morgan defeated Roderic Bowen in Cardiganshire, until February 1974, he had been the only parliamentary

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