Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician Isaac Hayward was born on 17 November 1884 in a two-bedroomed terraced house in King Street, Blaenafon, Monmouthshire, the third of five children to survive out of eight born to Thomas Hayward (1848-1925), engine fitter, and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née French, 1848-1925). He had two brothers and two sisters: Thomas, Elizabeth, Alice Louisa, and William Frederick. Isaac was raised a Baptist and
HEATH, CHARLES (1761 - 1830), printer topography of Monmouthshire. Whilst the arrangement of the material in his books shows little sign of literary or critical judgement, his works were an invaluable source of information to later historians, including David Williams, archdeacon William Coxe, and Sir Joseph A. Bradney. His first publication was A Descriptive account of Raglan Castle, 1792. Other well-known works, of which several reached
HENRY, JOHN (1859 - 1914), musician Born in 1859 at Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire, the son of Bennett Williams. He was brought up in a musical family. He joined the Caernarvon Volunteers band and when he was only thirteen years old became its conductor. Possessed of a good baritone voice he began to compete as a soloist when he was seventeen and won several prizes. When he was twenty-one he went to the Royal College of Music, London
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, VI's reign (1548) and at the head of 500 men of Mid Wales against the French under Mary (1557), and receiving from him the lordship of Cherbury (1553). Through the Pembroke connection he gained the patronage of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester (uncle of Pembroke's wife), became keeper of Holt castle and the lordship of Bromfield and Yale in Denbighshire (1570), and, after the purchase of the lordship
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), Grey in 1587 (see Powis, Grey, lords of). He appears to have had Catholic leanings, and his wife and children were returned as recusants in 1594 (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1945, 122). His son WILLIAM HERBERT (1573 - 1656) Politics, Government and Political Movements by Mary, daughter of Thomas Stanley, master of the Mint, was Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire
HERBERT family (perhaps initiated) Northumberland's plot for crowning lady Jane Grey (July 1553) but drew back in time, helped to proclaim Mary, and so won her complete confidence and retained his ascendancy, resigning only his presidency at Ludlow. He favoured the Spanish match, led the forces which put down Wyatt's rebellion (1554), went on diplomatic missions to France and the Netherlands (1555), was made governor
HERBERT, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Evangelical cleric August 1812, and with it held the curacy of Llanrhystud (1814) and the perpetual curacy of Rhyd-y-briw, Brecknock (1834). He married Mary Price of Felindre Uchaf, Llanfihangel Ystrad, and by her had five children: the eldest, William (1796 - 1893) followed him at Llansantffraed, where he was vicar from 1836-84, and the only daughter Mary, married David Parry (1794 - 1877), vicar of Llywel. David
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury Born 3 March 1583, at Eyton-on-Severn, son of Richard (died 1596 and Magdalen Herbert, of Montgomery. He entered University College, Oxford, in May 1596, married Mary Herbert in 1599, living at first in London but returning in 1605 to Montgomery where he was appointed magistrate and sheriff. In 1608 he made the first of many journeys to Europe which he describes so vividly in his Life, one of the
HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman (matriculated 10 October 1634), he was elected to the vacancy in the county seat in the Long Parliament caused by the death of Sir Charles Williams of Llangibby. Most of his family were Royalists, but his marriage to Mary, daughter of John Rudyard, grocer, of London (cousin to the opposition leader Sir Benjamin Rudyard), and perhaps an itch for the Raglan lands that had belonged to his ancestors, made him a
HERBERT, WILLIAM (1460 - 1491), earl of Pembroke, later earl of Huntingdon Eldest legitimate son of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (died 1469). According to William of Worcester, he was betrothed to Mary Woodville, the queen's sister, and made lord Dunster (September 1466), becoming earl of Pembroke on his father's death, 1469. He entered 'without proof of age' into the offices previously held by his father, and was commissioned to receive into the king's allegiance
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer legislation of a puritanical character, and that of 1586, where his speech against Mary, Queen of Scots - the first speech on record by a Welsh member - resulted in his membership of a deputation to Elizabeth about her. Next year he took up as ' undertaker ' over 13,000 acres of forfeited Fitzgerald lands in Munster, paying a Crown rental of c. £200 a year and living (1586-7) at Castle Island, co. Kerry. He
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire Born 12 August 1905 at 9 Alma Terrace, Taibach, Port Talbot, the son of William Heycock, a labourer in Port Talbot Docks and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Treharne). His family had migrated at the end of the eighteenth century from Worcestershire, and four generations of the Heycock family worked as miners in the Margam coalfield, and a number of them were involved in the rise of the Labour

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