Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HAMER, Sir GEORGE FREDERICK (1885 - 1965), industrialist and public figure Kt., cr. 1955; C.B.E. 1948; Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire and Custos Rotulorum 1950-60; born 19 March 1885, son of Edward and Martha Hamer (née Matthews), Summerfield Park, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire; married Sybil Dorothy Vaughan Owen (High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1958), 3rd daughter of Dr. John Vaughan Owen and Emma Wigley Owen (née Davies), at St. Idloes parish church, Llanidloes on 1
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, estate from his father, Thomas Hanmer, in 1620, and died there without issue on 23 June 1629; the text of his epitaph on a brass in Selattyn church (now lost) is given in Browne Willis, A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of St. Asaph (1801 ed., i, 111). He was educated at Shrewsbury and Oriel College, Oxford, and married Mary, daughter of Arthur Kempe of Hampshire, who after his death married col
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore stubborn defence of Brampton, where she died in October 1643), seems to have felt that at least Cradoc (perhaps the only one of the three Welshmen with whom she was personally acquainted) was going much too far. The connection between Brampton Bryan and early Welsh Puritanism has been discussed by J. H. Davies in the preface to his edition of Morgan Llwyd (1908), by Thomas Richards in his Hist. of the
HARRIES, JOHN (1722 - 1788) Ambleston, early Methodist exhorter parish. On the death of Howel Davies (1770), Harries (who was a well-to-do farmer) superintended the whole Methodist work in the county until the arrival of Nathaniel Rowland; according to William Gambold, 'he was one of the strictest and most approved of men, universally beloved'; and Rowland Hill thought very highly of him. He strove hard to stem the Moravian tide in Pembrokeshire: we find him in
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner John Harries (Shon Harri Shon) was probably born at Pantycoy (Pant-coi), Cwrt-y-cadno, Carmarthenshire, and was baptised at Caeo on 10 April 1785. He was the eldest of the six children of Henry Jones (Harry John, Harry Shon), Pantycoy (1739-1805), a mason, and his wife Mary Wilkins. He received a relatively formal education, educated at The Cowings, Commercial Private Academy, Caio, until he was
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 1735 he was a schoolmaster at Llan-gors and Llangasty. In 1735 the preaching of Pryce Davies, vicar of Talgarth, wrought wonderfully upon him and he began to evangelize in the neighbourhood of his home. He matriculated from S. Mary Hall, Oxford, but left the university within a week. He applied for holy orders in 1736 but this was refused because he was preaching irregularly (incidentally, this
HARRIS, JOHN (1704 - 1763) S. Kennox, Llawhaden, Methodist and Moravian exhorter Not to be confused with John Harries (1728 - 1788), 'of Ambleston '; born at Newport, Pembrokeshire, on Good Friday, 1704. His wife was Esther Davies (died 1766), daughter of Llewelyn Davies of Clynfyw, Manordivy - it was her sister Letitia, wife of James Bowen of Dygoed, Clydey, who in 1739 invited Howel Harris to visit Pembrokeshire for the first time. Harris was early a Methodist; it was he
HARRIS, THOMAS (1705 - 1782) , is known as the husband of the famous actress Mary Darby ('Perdita ' - see D.N.B.); their daughter was born at Trevecka House and christened at Talgarth 25 October 1774. Mrs. Robinson ('Perdita has left an unflattering, 'warts and all' description of her father-in-law's person and habits in her autobiography, Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson written by herself (1803). He did little for her and
HARRISON, RICHARD (1743 - 1830), Wesleyan Methodist local preacher was one of the first to expound Wesley's Arminianism in North Wales, and his counsel and assistance were invaluable to Evan Roberts, Denbigh, Edward Jones, Bathafarn, (1778 - 1837), Owen Davies (1752 - 1830), and John Hughes (1776 - 1843).
HARRY, JOSEPH (1863 - 1950), schoolmaster and Independent minister , on medical grounds, in 1922. Every spring, he lost his voice. After retiring, he lived with his daughter and her husband, Dan Davies, in Mansfield Road, Ilford. He was held in high esteem in Llandovery, as he had been in Carmarthen. On his departure from Llandovery, he was presented with a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He took a leading part in the public life of the town of Carmarthen and
HARTLAND, EDWIN SIDNEY (1848 - 1927), one of the founders of the modern science of folklore Born at Islington, son of Edwin Joseph Hartland, a Congregational minister, and his wife Anne (née Corden Hulls). No particulars of his education are recorded. On 13 August 1873, he married Mary Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Morgan Rice Morgan, vicar of Llansamlet, Glamorganshire. Hartland came from Bristol to Swansea, and practised as a solicitor there from 1871 to 1890; in the latter year he

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