Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator Weston Colville; he was also schoolmaster at Dullingham, near Newmarket. His preferments in Wales are not easy to date with confidence (parish records are lacking), but both Stephen Hughes (in 1677) and Moses Williams make him parson of Llanddowror - this, presumably, would be before 1595. Again, though the list of Pembrokeshire parsons in West Wales Records contains not a single reference to Holland
HOLLAND, SAMUEL (1803 - 1892), a pioneer of the North Wales slate industry and chief promoter of the establishment of Dr. Williams's school for girls at Dolgelley School, Dolgelley. Holland represented Merioneth in Parliament (as a Liberal) from 1870 to 1885. He lived for years at Plas Penrhyn, near Penrhyndeudraeth and, for some years before his death, at Caer-deon, between Barmouth and Dolgelley. He died 27 December 1892; his widow Caroline Jane (née Burt) died in 1924.
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren commoners against the Dowlais Company, when the defendants again won. Homfray incurred £300 damages in the libel action brought against him by William Taitt of the Dowlais Company in 1807. In 1811, at the Hereford assizes, Homfray and his partners in the Penydarren iron-works again sued the Dowlais Company for fouling and choking the Morlais brook with cinders and slag. Samuel married Jane, daughter of
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure advocacy of a Welsh Assembly during 1978-79. Powys recorded the highest 'No' vote of all the Welsh counties in the Referendum of 1 March 1979, and in the general election which ensued in May, when the Liberal vote slumped badly, the seemingly impregnable 'man for Montgomeryshire' unexpectedly lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Delwyn Williams by a margin of 1593 votes. A ninety-nine year Liberal
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet other poets such as Cynan and R. Williams-Parry. He was called up to the army in 1918, passed his medical in June, but before joining any camp the war ended, and he was saved from having to leave his native area. He was busy there with Blaenafon Chapel, where he was elected an elder in 1923, and was a prominent member of the Chapel Drama Company. He served on Blaenpennal Parish Council from 1922 to
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist and Mary Davies, Bonymaen, Llansamlet, and he was a collier himself for some time. He had received his early education in the school at Cockett, but when he decided to become a minister, he went for further education to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, kept by ' Watcyn Wyn ' (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and then to the Academy at Newcastle Emlyn, kept by John Phillips, son of the famous Evan Phillips. From
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician ; it is still of interest and use as a source-book for information on the literature of Wales, and on the history of the provincial eisteddfodau. Besides examples of the work of the editor (some of them written for the Carmarthen and Brecon eisteddfodau) the volume contains a selection of poems by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), Jenkin Thomas, Cwm-du, Cardiganshire, Eliezer Williams, Daniel Evans
HOWELLS, ELISEUS (1893 - 1969), minister (Presb.), and author The only child of Eliseus and Jane Howells of Cefn Cribwr, Glamorganshire. His father was killed in an explosion in the Slip colliery, Parc Tir Gwnter, Cefn Cribwr, in August 1892, and he was born 8 January 1893 in Augusta St., Ton Pentre, Rhondda, the home of his uncle, William Howells and his wife, by whom he was brought up. He was educated in Ton Pentre elementary and secondary schools and
HOWELLS, GEORGE (1871 - 1955), principal of Serampore College, India Born 11 May 1871 at Llandafal Farm, Cwm, Monmouthshire, the son of George William and Jane Howells. He received his early education at the Board School, Cwm, and later went to the Grammar School, Pengam. Having won the Ward Scholarship, he entered Regent's Park Baptist College, London. He graduated at the University of London, and then pursued his studies in Oxford at Mansfield and Jesus Colleges
HUDSON-WILLIAMS, THOMAS (1873 - 1961), scholar and translator Born 4 February 1873, son of R. Williams, Caernarfon. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, University College of North Wales, Bangor, and the University of Greifswald. In 1894 he took the degree of the University of London in Classics, French and Celtic, and the D. Lit., of the same university in 1911. He was appointed Assistant Lecturer in French and German at University College, Bangor, in
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Annie Jane Davies was born on 5 April 1873, at Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the sixth of ten children of Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Sara Maria (1864-1939), Mary (1869-1918) ac Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Robert Brian ('Bertie', 1865-1879), David Charles (1866-1928), Edward (1867-1869), John

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