Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren annuity of £2,500 payable during his life (probably from Penydarren), and £10 from the Aber-nant iron-works. But having a large family, and living in style (especially during the period when he was high sheriff of Glamorgan in 1809-10 - he was also acting high sheriff in 1810-11) and taking up costly leases of coal-mining properties and farms in the neighbourhood of Pontypridd, he soon got into
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure Emlyn Hooson was born on 26 March 1925, the son of Hugh and Elsie Hooson of Colomendy, Denbighshire, to a notable local family. He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated in law in 1949. (He was years later to be appointed a Professorial Fellow of Aberystwyth University in 1997). In 1950 he married Shirley Margaret Wynne Hamer
HOOSON, ISAAC DANIEL (1880 - 1948), solicitor and poet Born 2 May 1880, at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Harriet Hooson. His father's family originally came from Cornwall. I. D. Hooson was educated at the Rhos board school and Ruabon grammar school. In 1897 he entered the service of Messrs Morris and Jones in Liverpool, where he stayed until 1904 when his father died. He was afterwards articled to a Wrexham solicitor and he
HOOSON, JOHN (1883 - 1969), teacher, scholar Born in 1883 at Nant, a farmhouse in the Hiraethog area of Denbigh, son of Thomas Hooson and his wife Marged. The family moved to Maelor, Saron and then to Colomendy and Graig, near Denbigh. John Hooson was educated at Prion school and at the county school, Denbigh. He started to work on the farm but suffered from ill health. He returned to school and in 1903 won a scholarship to the University
HOPCYN ap TOMAS (c. 1330 - 1403), gentleman living at Ynysdawy in the parish of Llangyfelach, Glamorganshire; son of Tomas ab Einion, i.e. the Einion who, Iolo Morganwg maintained, was Einion Offeiriad. Iolo wove all manner of stories about this family, making Hopcyn a bard and the author of romances, parables, grammars, etc.; what we have here is an attempt to explain the references to Hopcyn which are found in poem by bards of the 14th
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on 28 July 1844, at 87, The Grove, Stratford, Essex, the eldest of eight, or possibly nine, children of Manley Hopkins (1818-1897), the founder of a marine insurance firm, and his wife Catherine (née Smith, 1821-1900). His parents were devout High Church Anglicans with family connections in intellectual and artistic circles. In 1852, the family moved to Hampstead
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist born 3 November 1876, in Swansea, son of Joshua George, and Catherine (née Bowen) Howard. His father claimed to be a direct descendant of John Howard, the prison reformer. He lost his parents when a child. For some time he was brought up in his mother's family and later he was put into the Cottage Homes at Cockett near Swansea. As an adolescent, he was taken in by a collier and his wife, Thomas
HOWE, ELIZABETH ANNE (1959 - 2019), ecologist two daughters, family holidays generated a trail of rare invertebrate records, and they both developed careers in nature conservation in Wales. As a talented naturalist, Liz Howe began working for the Nature Conservancy Council (1986-91) based at Bangor, surveying sites and then preparing conservation site management plans. She was appointed species team leader and herpetologist in the newly formed
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand and Salford, 1900-02, and from 1902 to 1944 in the Whitefield Mission in Tottenham Court Road; and Mary Emma, who was at one time governess in the family of Sir Richard Martin in Llansamlet, a nurse in Swansea hospital for a period from 1895, and in military hospitals in South Africa, India and Egypt; and matron of an infectious diseases hospital under the Egyptian government.
HOWELL, THOMAS (1588 - 1646), bishop brother of James Howell, author of the Epistolae, uncle of the James Howell who was in turn a Puritan minister and an Anglican pluralist, and who was godfather also to James Owen, the famous Nonconformist. As far as Wales is concerned the interest of the bishop arises solely from this family concatenation. Some indeed accused him of being somewhat of a Puritan, but the impression left by his many
HOWELL, THOMAS FRANCIS (1864 - 1953), businessman and barrister making this his career. The law triumphed, however, and he was called to the Bar at Inner Temple (1889) and practised for a time on the South Wales Circuit. On the death of his father in 1909, he took over management and control of the family business and Cardiff store founded by James Howell, and under his direction the store developed and became well known throughout south Wales, and beyond. He
HOWELLS, THOMAS (Hywel Cynon; 1839 - 1905), collier, printer, poet, preacher, and musician Born 12 October 1839, at Glyn Neath, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Rhymney and the son began to work as a collier's boy when he was only seven years old. Later, at Aberaman, whither the family had moved from Rhymney, he was able to receive some education and he began to attend an evening class conducted by the Rev. John Davies. In 1858 John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) came to Aberdare and Hywel

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