Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint Eldest son of Howel and Susannah Harris of Trevecka, and brother of Howel and of Thomas Harris. He was christened at Talgarth 16 February 1703/4. After working as a blacksmith with his maternal uncle Thomas Powell, he went to London in 1724, was brought to the notice of Halley the astronomer-royal, and was sent on two voyages to the West Indies (1725, 1730-2) to test mathematical instruments used
HARRIS, THOMAS (1705 - 1782) Second son of Howel and Susannah Harris of Trevecka, and brother of Howel and Joseph Harris. Christened at Talgarth 6 January 1705. He went to Bath in 1728, and in 1729 to London, at first as a tailor with his uncle Solomon Powell and afterwards working on his own. He spent some forty years in London, and after initial misadventures made a large fortune out of army contracts. In 1768 he was
HARRY, MILES (1700 - 1776), Baptist minister between High Calvinism and Arminianism. He established several new churches; helped to found and to supervise the Trosnant Baptist Academy; promoted the setting-up at Pontypool (1740-2) by Samuel and Felix Farley, Bristol, of the first printing press in Monmouthshire; wrote countless letters to London and elsewhere in the Baptist interest. It was chiefly through his efforts that Howel Harris, when
HOLLAND family were congeners of the Conway Hollands. But Bernard Holland will allow at best only an illegitimate connection between the two. It seems that we are on firm ground only when we reach a certain ROGER (or HOESGYN) HOLLAND, whatever may have brought him into Wales. He had a son, ROBIN HOLLAND, who was a partisan of Owain Glyn Dŵr. This Robin had two sons who concern us: HOWEL HOLLAND of (3) PENNANT (i.e
HOWEL ap GRUFFYDD - see HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD
HOWEL, HARRI (fl. 1637-1671), bard son of Howel ap Siôn Ieuan of the parish of Dolgelley, also a bard. He was contemporary with Gruffydd Phylip and sang to many of the families to whom that bard sang. On the evidence of the eighteen (or so) cywyddau by him which survive, Harri Howel sang to members of houses ranging from Bodwrdda (west Caernarfonshire), Gwaenynog and Llwyn Ynn (in the vale of Clwyd), to Nannau and Hafod Dywyll
HOWELLS, ELISEUS (1893 - 1969), minister (Presb.), and author , Y Drysorfa, to the journal of the Presb. history society and to Y Drysorfa - he was editor of the latter, 1959-63. He published Hermon, Bridgend (1949), a history of that church in English. For years he took an interest in the ancestors and descendants of Howel and Ann Harris of Trefeca, and the fruits of his work are to be found in NLW MS 20496C.
HUGHES, HOWEL HARRIS (1873 - 1956), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth
HUGHES, JOHN RICHARD (1828 - 1893), Calvinistic Methodist minister and celebrated evangelist Born at Tredegar, 1828, and brought up at Aber-carn, Monmouthshire, son of Nathan Hughes. On his father's side he was descended from [ Evan Hughes, printer,] one of the 'Family' which Howel Harris gathered round himself at Trevecka [see Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, ix, 40-1], and he had inherited to a considerable extent the devotional and missionary zeal of his line
IEUAN FYCHAN ap IEUAN ab ADDA (d. c. 1458), poet Chirk (with Nanheudwy), and he also fought in France. He was succeeded at Mostyn c. 1457 or 1458 by his son Howel ap Ieuan, father of Richard ap Howel. Ieuan Fychan was a contemporary of the bards Guto'r Glyn and Maredudd ap Rhys, with the latter of whom he had a bardic controversy. For translations of some poems written by or to him see the History mentioned above.
INGRAM, JAMES (d. 1788), Methodist exhorter, and afterwards Independent minister the date of his birth is unknown, but his home was Cwm Brith in Cefnllys parish, Radnorshire (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, xxxv, 47). As a lad, he came under Howel Harris's influence, and in November 1742 (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 24), at Erwood, it was arranged that he should be Harris's amanuensis and travelling-companion; it was he who
JAMES, THOMAS (d. 1751), early Methodist exhorter - some of his reports on these are printed in Methodistiaeth Cymru, i, 165, iii, 315, 331. Howel Harris in his diaries often mentions James, and the Trevecka collection (N.L.W.) contains ten letters of James's to Harris, a letter of his to Harris's future wife, and one to Whitefield, together with seventeen letters from Harris to James, and one from Anne Williams (Harris) to him; the correspondence

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