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
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
HANBURY, JOHN (1744 - 1784), industrialist - see HANBURYfamily, industrialists
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, Hanmer M.P.'s for Flintshire and its borough, which reached a total of nine (with almost twice as many sheriffs) by the end of the 19th century Sir JOHN HANMER (died 1624), great-grandson of the second Sir Thomas, was made a baronet (1620) and a member of the council of Wales (30 June 1624) by James I. He married into the Trevor family of Trefalun, tended towards the Puritan side in Parliament, and
HANSON, CARL AUGUST (1872 - 1961), first head of the bindery at the National Library of Wales children. In 1911, the recently opened National Library of Wales urgently required an experienced craftsman to repair and rebind (where necessary) many of the rare manuscripts and books in the Peniarth and Llanstephan libraries which Sir John Williams had donated as foundation collections. From three strongly recommended applicants Carl Hanson was unanimously appointed. The leaves of many of the
HARDING, Sir JOHN DORNEY (1809 - 1868), Queen's Advocate
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 not the original patent provided for its reversion to the heirs male of the first Sir Robert Harley (above). The 3rd earl's third son (by Martha Morgan of Tredegar), THOMAS HARLEY (1730 - 1804), a merchant and afterwards a banker, Member of Parliament for the City (1761-74) and lord mayor of London in 1767, got into trouble with the supporters of John Wilkes; it may be noted that his name appears in
HARRIES, DAVID (1747 - 1834), musician Born 16 September 1747 at Nantllymystyn, Llansantffraid, Radnorshire, the son of John and Winifred Harries. A hymn-tune called ' Babell ' by him which did not get the prize at the Welshpool eisteddfod of 1824 was included in Caniadau Seion (Mills), whilst a Christmas carol composed to the words ' Cyduned pob Cristion ' was printed in Cerddor y Cymry. His anthem, ' Par i mi wybod dy ffyrdd
HARRIES, HENRY (d. 1862), astrologer, medicine-man, and conjurer Son of JOHN HARRIES, Pant-coy, Cwrt-y-cadno, Carmarthenshire. Henry Harries and his father (who died in 1839) are considered to be among the most famous of Welsh conjurers of modern times; they are known to have been consulted by people from all over South Wales and the borderland. The father had received a formal education considerably in advance of the community in which he found himself, while
HARRIES, HYWEL (1921 - 1990), art teacher, artist, cartoonist Hywel Harries was born in Tumble, Carmarthenshire, 7 October 1921, the son of David John Harries and his wife Sarah Ann. He was educated locally and at Gwendraeth grammar school. He showed his artistic talent early and went to Llanelli Art School but he joined the RAF at the start of World War 2 in 1941 and served for five years. On his relaease in 1946 he attended Cardiff Technical College where
HARRIES, JOHN (1722 - 1788) Ambleston, early Methodist exhorter Not to be confused with John Harris (1704 - 1763) 'of S. Kennox.' Considering Harries's fame, it is curious how very few definite facts about him are available. He was at an early date in charge of a group of Societies in north Pembrokeshire, and became Howel Davies's right-hand man; it is by no accident that Woodstock, the oldest Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Pembrokeshire, is in Ambleston

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