Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume music, but also subjects such as house keeping and economy. She married the politician and reformer Benjamin Hall in 1823, uniting their neighbouring estates of Llanover and Aber-carn. By that time the family had travelled widely in Great Britain and Europe, and her sister Frances had married Baron Christian Charles Josiah von Bunsen, historian, Prussian envoy to the court of Queen Victoria 1838-1852
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) January 1896. Her only surviving child, Augusta, married 12 November 1846, Arthur Jones of Llanarth, of an old Roman Catholic family which later assumed the name of Herbert. Their son, Major-General Sir IVOR CARADOC HERBERT (1851 - 1934), became baron Treowen in 1917. He presented the Llanover MSS. to the National Library of Wales in 1916.
HALL, BENJAMIN (Lord Llanover), (1802 - 1867), politician and reformer Benjamin Hall, 1st Lord Llanover, was born in London on 8 November 1802, the eldest son of four of the industrialist Benjamin Hall (1778-1817) and his wife Charlotte (née Crawshay, 1784-1839). The family moved to live on the Aber-carn estate in Monmouthshire when Benjamin Hall was six years old. He attended Westminster School from 1814 to 1820, when he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, which
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician Colliery, so that he could assist his widowed mother, who had been left with a large family to support. This was all the formal education he received. But a prolonged absence from work, following an accident in the colliery, gave him an opportunity for self-education and extensive reading. He worked at the coal face until 1911, when he was appointed colliery checkweighman and local agent of the S.W.M.F
HANBURY family, industrialists HANBURY, JOHN, II (1664 - 1734), industrialist Business and Industry Military Royalty and Society Of the Worcestershire family of Hanbury; he was christened at S. Nicholas, Gloucester, in 1664. He was the son of Capel Hanbury (1625 - 1704), the third son of John Hanbury I of Pursall Green. John Hanbury II is acknowledged as the pioneer of the tin-plating industry; he inherited the Pontypool
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, This family is of English origin, tracing its descent to Sir Thomas de Macclesfield, an officer of Edward I who settled in Maelor Saesneg (now a detached portion of Flintshire), he and his successors marrying Welsh heiresses descended from Rhys Sais or Tudur Trevor and acquiring estates in the neighbourhood, from one of which the family name was taken. His great-grandson Sir DAVID HANMER (died c
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) Born 9 July 1866 at Nant-isaf (from which he took his bardic name), Bwlch-nant-yr-heyrn, Llanrwst, Denbighshire, the fifth of nine children (5 daughters and 4 sons) of John and Sarah Ann Harker. His great-grandfather, James Harker, had moved from Lancashire to work in the leadmine at Nant in the middle of the eighteenth century, but the family had come from Cornwall originally. He received only
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore their chief seat, though not in Wales, lies immediately outside north-east Radnorshire, and they were for a long time dominant in Radnorshire politics. Further, Brampton Bryan was, for a short period, an important focus of early Welsh Puritanism. The Brampton family, said to have been domiciled there (on Mortimer land) as early as Henry I, emerges from obscurity with a Brian de Brampton, temp
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner widow is named Lettice in his will (13 May 1842, SD/1842/199). John Harries is one of the best-known examples of the dyn hysbys or 'cunning man'. He and his family were famous throughout Wales and neighbouring counties on the English border as highly professional medical practitioners, clever surgeons and skilful astrologers who held an important position in society. People travelled from far and wide
HARRIS, GRIFFITH (1811 - 1892), musician Born, according to the family gravestone at Carmarthen on 15 July 1811, the son of Griffith and Mary Harris. He had a clothier's shop at Carmarthen. He was precentor at Water Street Calvinistic Methodist chapel; he also conducted a town choir. In 1849 he published a collection of 260 hymn-tunes under the title of Haleluwia, this being followed in 1855 by Haleliwia Drachefn, containing 200 hymn
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer divided into two sects, the followers of Rowland and the followers of Harris. This hindered the success of the religious reformation in many districts. In 1752 Harris retired to Trevecka where he established a 'Family' from among his supporters, being stoutly supported in this design by Evan Moses and Thomas William of Eglwys Ilan. Buildings for the 'Family' were erected on an extensive scale at
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint weights and measures mid - 18th c. His contacts with his family and his countryside remained close; in particular he strove vainly to inculcate prudence into his brother Howel (e.g. he came down to Trevecka in 1735, expressly to convey Howel to Oxford for his matriculation), and there are 81 letters of his in the Trevecka collection at the National Library of Wales, besides 49 letters from Howel to him

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