Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author language issues for over 75 years. In 1999 she appeared for the last time, with her friend and fellow-campaigner Dr Meredydd Evans, before the Aberystwyth Magistrates for refusing to pay her television license in protest against the low standard of broadcasting in the Welsh language. She also promoted Welsh culture as a member of the Court of the National Library, the Central Advisory Council for
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel in 1711, was sheriff ofRadnorshire in 1718, and married Sarah, daughter of Daniel Evans of Peterwell (Meyrick, Cardiganshire, 2nd ed., 222). According to Jackson, Life of Charles Wesley, i, 514, she was one of six sisters, each of whom had £30,000. She and her husband certainly lived in great state at Garth, keeping a chaplain and twenty servants, and seldom having fewer than ten to fifteen guests
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume financially supported Daniel Silvan Evans when he was preparing his multi-volume dictionary. Combining ardent Protestantism with a love of Welsh, she endowed two Calvinist Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based upon the Book of Common Prayer. Her belief in temperance led her to convert inns and pubs in the area into
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) with Maria Jane Williams, Aber-pergwm and Brinley Richards in a collection of Welsh airs. She gave financial assistance to D. Silvan Evans in connection with his dictionary. Her other main interests were temperance work and a militant protestantism. She endowed two Calvinistic Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter manager Bill Collins, who in 1966 moved them into his house in North London. Two years of gigging, songwriting and recording demos in penurious conditions (and a personnel change, with Liverpudlian Tom Evans replacing Jenkins) paid off when The Iveys were signed by the Beatles' record label, Apple, in July 1968. Pete's early compositions, which had caught the ear of Paul McCartney, were a factor in
HARRIES, ISAAC HARDING (d. c. 1868), Independent minister, and editor of periodicals The date and place of his birth are uncertain, but he began preaching at Beaufort in Brecknock, went to the Neuadd-lwyd Academy, and was minister at Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, 1831-5. At this period he delivered eloquent addresses on behalf of the Bible Society; one of these was published, together with Sylwedd Pregeth under the same cover, at Caernarvon (72 pp. printed by Peter Evans). Early
HARRIS, JOSEPH (Gomer; 1773 - 1825), Baptist minister, and man of letters himself, Titus Lewis, and Christmas Evans; and Cofiant Ieuan Ddu, a memoir of his son, J. Ryland Harris. He died 10 August 1825 shortly after his fifty-second birthday.
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author . Prys-Jones), she used traditional forms with an effect which occasionally echoed W.H. Davies, leading 'Wil Ifan' (William Evans) to call her 'Gwent's Second Voice'.
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), , who wrote several books of devotions, which were collected and printed in 1791 as Several excellent methods of hearing Mass, and the fifth, lady WINIFRED HERBERT (died at Rome, 1749) who, with the aid of two women, one being Grace Evans of Welshpool (died 1737), contrived the escape of her husband, the earl of Nithsdale, lying under sentence of death in the Tower for his part in the Jacobite rising
HERRING, JOHN (1789 - 1832), Baptist minister , 1811, and it was there he died, 2 April 1832. Christmas Evans said that Herring had more of the attributes of a great preacher than anyone else in Wales. He was chairman of the south-west Wales Baptist Association, 1831-2, and the writer of the letter to the Churches on ' the state of religion in our midst '; he also edited Greal y Bedyddwyr.
HILEY, FRANCIS (1781 - 1860), Baptist minister 1860. He incorporated eight churches. He was a mighty preacher and Christmas Evans said, on one occasion, that he would never preach after him. In the doctrinal discussions of the day he favoured the Higher Calvinism - a result of his sudden conversion - and in 1823 he published a booklet Golwg Ysgrythurol ar Iawn Crist, because the treatise in its original form had been rejected by Seren Gomer.
HOBLEY, WILLIAM (1858 - 1933), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Gelli Ffrydau, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire, October 1858, son of William and Ann Mary Hobley. He was at two private schools in Caernarvon, kept by John Evans and by J. H. Bransby, and at fifteen entered Aberystwyth University College, where he remained for four years; he did not graduate. From Aberystwyth he went to the Bala Theological College; he was ordained in 1882 and became pastor

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