Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman (matriculated 10 October 1634), he was elected to the vacancy in the county seat in the Long Parliament caused by the death of Sir Charles Williams of Llangibby. Most of his family were Royalists, but his marriage to Mary, daughter of John Rudyard, grocer, of London (cousin to the opposition leader Sir Benjamin Rudyard), and perhaps an itch for the Raglan lands that had belonged to his ancestors, made him a
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer , especially of divinity, and of alchemy and astrology (on which he corresponded with John Dee), and was well versed in the classics. He married Florentia, daughter of William Morgan of Llantarnam (died 1582), his father's colleague in the representation of the shire and father of his own colleague. He leased Newport castle (26 October 1578) and Elizabeth made him deputy constable of Conway castle (8 July
HERRING, JOHN (1789 - 1832), Baptist minister
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire 28-year old Cardiganshire-born barrister John Morris. But John Morris had received the nomination of the Steelworkers' Union, the backbone of the Port Talbot economy. In the Selection Conference John Morris was nominated to the great disappointment of Llewellyn Heycock as he had been for 30 years the Treasurer of the Constituency Party, secretary of the Taibach Ward for 40 years, and the most
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books issued from the London press in large numbers, 1630-32. They included the Welsh - Latin dictionary of John Davies (1570? - 1644) of Mallwyd, the translation by Rowland Vaughan of the Practice of Piety, of bishop Lewis Bayly, and the Welsh quarto Bible 'of 1630, bound up with the Welsh Prayer Book and the psalter of Edmund Prys. He died, childless, in 1631. He impressed contemporaries as 'a man of
HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil Bacon, who had been granted the Plymouth works under his father's will, became of age, and agreed to surrender to Richard Hill I all his interest in the Plymouth works, and this he confirmed in 1803 when he was 24 years of age. Being now in full possession of the Plymouth works, he with his sons, Richard II and JOHN HILL, entered into an agreement with the Dowlais and Penydarren iron companies for the
HILLS-JOHNES, Sir JAMES (1833 - 1919), general , and was awarded the C.B. He fought also in the Afghanistan war, 1878-80, was made military governor of the Kabul, made K.C.B. in 1881, and advanced, in 1893, to G.C.B. Hills married, 1882, Charlotte, daughter and coheiress of John Johnes, Dolaucothi, Carmarthenshire; in 1883 he assumed, by royal licence, the additional name and arms of Johnes. He was honorary colonel of the 4th battalion of the
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal David Mervyn Himbury was born in Ystrad Mynach, Glamorganshire, on 22 July 1922. His father, Reginald Harry Himbury, had come to Wales from Rampisham in Dorset to seek work in the coal mines. He married Olwen Thomas, whose family lived in Aberystwyth; the Reverend Idris Thomas, a Baptist minister in Cefn-mawr, was her brother. Mervyn had a younger brother, John (1932-1970). Reginald Himbury was
HINDS, JOHN DARWIN VIVIAN (1922 - 1981), politician and community activist John Darwin Hinds was born on 28 December 1922 in Maerdy, Glamorganshire, and grew up on Morgan Street in Barry. His mother, Gwenllian (née Lloyd), born in Barry, was a resolute homemaker, and his father, Leonard Hinds (1887-1942), a merchant seaman turned coal miner, had come to the United Kingdom from Barbados. Leonard served as a fireman on merchant ships in the First World War and earned the
HOBLEY, WILLIAM (1858 - 1933), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Gelli Ffrydau, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire, October 1858, son of William and Ann Mary Hobley. He was at two private schools in Caernarvon, kept by John Evans and by J. H. Bransby, and at fifteen entered Aberystwyth University College, where he remained for four years; he did not graduate. From Aberystwyth he went to the Bala Theological College; he was ordained in 1882 and became pastor
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher composition. He came to general notice and was acknowledged as a very promising composer in 1954 when his Concerto for clarinet (op.3) was performed at the Cheltenham Music Festival by the celebrated clarinettist Gervase de Peyer and the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli. Although this neo-classical work has remained in the repertoire, Hoddinott subsequently developed a more intricate and personal style

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