Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYNNE family Kilvey Anglican cathedrals in Cairo and Khartoum and ministered to the 8th Army during World War II. He preached in Swansea in the 1950s. He died 3 December 1957. HOWELL ARTHUR GWYNNE (1865 - 1950), journalist Literature and WritingPrinting and Publishing, C.H. 1938; born Kilvey, 3 September 1865. Educated at Swansea Grammar School (Foundation Scholar) and in Switzerland. He was The Times ' correspondent in the
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume cemetery, Llanover. Her funeral procession of several hundred was described and depicted with a focus on the fact that the ceremony was conducted in Welsh and had a pointedly Welsh character. Lady Llanover's only surviving child, Augusta Charlotte Elizabeth Herbert (1824-1912) married Arthur Jones of Llanarth (Monmouthshire), of an old Roman Catholic family which assumed the name of Herbert in 1848, on
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) January 1896. Her only surviving child, Augusta, married 12 November 1846, Arthur Jones of Llanarth, of an old Roman Catholic family which later assumed the name of Herbert. Their son, Major-General Sir IVOR CARADOC HERBERT (1851 - 1934), became baron Treowen in 1917. He presented the Llanover MSS. to the National Library of Wales in 1916.
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
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author , writing articles and poems, illustrating books, designing Christmas cards and becoming a member of the council of the Society of Women Journalists. In July 1947 she married Dr. Arthur Merion Williams of Borth (consultant anaesthetist at Redhill county hospital and the East Surrey group of hospitals) at the presbyterian church, Llanover, and lived after her marriage at Buckland, near Reigate, where she
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, colleague. Of his three sons, the eldest, ARTHUR HERBERT (1647 - 1716), earl of Torrington, held naval command under James II till dismissed for opposition to royal policy, convoyed William III to England in 1688, and again commanded the fleet till the action of Beachy Head (1690). The second son, Sir EDWARD HERBERT (1645 - 1698), titular earl of Portland, followed his father's profession, succeeded Sir
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), planned to press his claim to it. In politics he was a Tory. He was buried at Hendon, 28 October 1745, leaving by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Preston, two sons, WILLIAM, 3rd marquess, who died unmarried, aged about 50 in 1748, and EDWARD (died 1734), who had by his wife Henrietta, daughter of the 1st earl of Waldegrave, a posthumous daughter, BARBARA (1735 - 1786), who married HENRY ARTHUR
HICKS, HENRY (1837 - 1899), physician and geologist bone caves of Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn, North Wales, and various glacial and post-glacial deposits. Much of his work was in controversial fields and he was a keen but considerate adversary. He married, 1864, Mary, daughter of Arthur Richardson, vicar of S. Dogmells, Pembrokeshire. He died 18 November 1899.
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher the same year he gained a scholarship to the University College in Cardiff, and during his time there took private lessons in composition with Arthur Benjamin in London. He graduated B.Mus. (Wales) in 1949 and in 1951 was appointed to the then Cardiff College of Music and Drama. In 1953 he won the Walford Davies Prize for composition and in 1957 the Medal of the Arnold Bax Society. He was appointed
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist Liverpool, he did much social work and he was known as ' down and out Jim ', because he was often seen joining the queue of the unemployed to have an opportunity of gaining knowledge of social problems. He was a fervent socialist, prominent in the Labour Party, and a personal friend of people like Philip Snowden, Ramsay MacDonald, Arthur Henderson and George Lansbury. He was a candidate for Labour in the
HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician to the post of opposition spokesman for housing and local government, which he held until 1964. After the Labour Party's narrow victory on 15 October 1964, Arthur Bottomley became Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations with Hughes as his Minister of State. Hughes represented the government at the independence ceremonies in Kenya, Gambia and Malta. His negotiating skills were tested by the

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