Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HANBURY, JOHN (1744 - 1784), industrialist - see HANBURYfamily, industrialists
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, of Wales in 1400, the latter being in Paris in quest of aid for the rebellion as late as 1415. Their lands were in consequence forfeit to their brother JOHN, who also married a local heiress; but he too later joined Glyn Dwr and acted as his envoy in Paris in 1404; the tradition that he fell in the battle of Shrewsbury (1403) is now discredited. Pardoned in 1411, he divided his estates between his
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
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, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer Association which formed an alliance with the corresponding Methodist movement in England. In the Calvinistic controversy the Welsh reformers sided with George Whitefield but Harris steadfastly supported the two Wesleys in their efforts for union. On 18 May 1744 he married Anne, daughter of John Williams, esquire, of Ysgrîn ('Skreen'), Radnorshire. The next few years were spent preaching in England and

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