Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 (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
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
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
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, JOHN (d. 1680), bishop of Llandaff . Assuming his position as 'head of the chapter,' he threw himself into the task of collecting funds and commissioned the famous architect of Bath, John Wood, to erect the 'Italian Temple' within the walls of the cathedral - a work highly appraised in his day but unstintingly condemned in the following century. He died 28 August 1738 and was buried in Wells cathedral. A mural tablet was erected to his
HARRIS, JOHN - see HARRIES, JOHN
HARRIS, JOHN RYLAND (Ieuan Ddu; 1802 - 1823), printer and author

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