Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYN, OWEN, master of S. John's College, Cambridge - see GWYN, JOHN
GWYN, RICHARD (c. 1537 - 1584), Roman Catholic martyr
GWYN, ROBERT JOHNS - see GWYNNE, ROBERT JOHNS
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel See the pedigrees in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 238-40, iv, 269-70. This family, though not originally belonging to the Glanbrân clan (see Gwynne of Llanelwedd), became later connected with it. The surname ' Gwyn ' first appears in the Garth family c. 1545. A REES GWYNNE of Garth was coroner of Brecknock in the 17th century, and had a son MARMADUKE GWYNNE
GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, It would seem that the 'Gwyn' family of Llanelwedd began with a younger son of Rhydderch ap Dafydd Goch Gwyn, of the widespread clan of Glanbran, Llandovery (and other seats); there is a very full account of this clan in Old Wales (ed. W. R. Williams), vols. ii and iii (index); and pedigrees, not always consistent, are printed in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii
GWYNNE, ROBERT (JOHNS) (fl. 1568-1591), Roman Catholic missioner and writer He probably came of the Bodvel family and may have been a son of John Wyn ap Hugh (since he subscribes one of his writings ' Robert Johns gwyn '). He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1568. About three years later he was persuaded by his neighbour Robert Owen of Plas Du, Caernarfonshire, to absent himself from Anglican worship and to flee overseas. He entered Douai
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.
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier .1953, Robert b.1955 and Jonathan b.1958. The family lived in turn in two of Wales's finest houses, White Lodge in Penylan and Tŷ Gwyn in Lisvane, former home of James Turner, the builder of City Hall and other buildings in Cardiff's Cathays Park. Though by the 1950s a prominent figure in south Wales business circles, Hodge first came to wider attention, as the defender of small shareholders, through
HOLLAND family . PETER HOLLAND, a servant of Henry IV, came to Conway, and his family became owners of Conway castle, of much of the town, and of lands outside it (see W. B. Lowe, The Heart of Northern Wales, i, 342-5; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 341; Archæologia Cambrensis, 1866, facing 183). With the sons of HUGH GWYN HOLLAND, who had married Jane Conway of Bryneuryn and had died in 1585, this branch forks: (a) the
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator Born at Conway (christened there 18 January 1556/7), third son of Hugh Gwyn Holland - see Holland families (1). He matriculated from Clare College, Cambridge, at Easter 1577, graduated from Magdalene in 1577/1578, and proceeded M.A. from Jesus in 1581. On 15 January 1580/1 he was ordained deacon (on a title from his father) at Bangor; he was priested at Ely in April 1580, and licensed curate of
HOPCYN, WILIAM (1700 - 1741), poet ' Cadair Morgannwg ' (the bardic chair or circle of Glamorgan) in 1760. Of one thing only is there any certainty - that a man of the name of ' Will Hopkin ' wrote a poem satirizing the bards at the 'eisteddfod' held at Cymer in 1735. According to Iolo he was famed as a love poet. It was Iolo who said that Hopcyn was the author of ' Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn ' (usually referred to in English as ' Watching
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Alun Jones y Cilie, Evan Jenkins and Dafydd Jones from Ffair Rhos, T. Llew Jones, John Roderick Rees, Gwynfil Rees, Pennant, and Professor Gwyn Williams, Bethel, Mynydd Bach. B. T. Hopkins was reluctant to publish a volume of his poetry, but eventually gave in to persuasion from friends. Since he had not kept copies of his poems, Dyfnallt Morgan, T. Llew Jones and D. Ben Rees had to search for them

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