Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HANBURY family, industrialists church, Pontypool; her letters show that she took a keen and personal interest in the tinplate industry at Pontypool. The third John Hanbury's third son CHARLES (1777 - 1858), took the additional surname TRACY in 1798, and in 1838 was created baron SUDELEY. That branch of the Hanburys is associated with Montgomeryshire, for Charles Hanbury Tracy's wife inherited Gregynog (see Blayney family); several
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, of Fens (1622 - 1669) of whom the first, WILLIAM (died 1754), pulled down Fens Hall and lived at Hanmer and Bettisfield, while the third (his cousin) Sir WALDEN HANMER (1717 - 1783), initiated the enclosure of the district by Act of Parliament in 1775. Sir Walden's great-great-grandson - Sir JOHN HANMER (1809 - 1881), 3rd bart., (of the second creation) and 1st baron HANMER of Hanmer and Flint
HARLECH, 4th Baron - see ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, (died 1593), sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1603, and acquired, through his wife, Jane, daughter of Hugh ab Owen, the neighbouring estate of Aston. He was the father of Sir Edward Herbert (c. 1591 - 1657) (vide infra). Four of Richard Herbert's sons, Edward, George, Henry and Charles, became famous. The eldest Edward, 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury, is noticed separately. His son RICHARD HERBERT (c
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), The Herbert earldom of Powis dates from 1674, when WILLIAM HERBERT (c.1626 - 1696), 3rd baron Powis, was created 1st earl. Sir EDWARD HERBERT (died 23 March 1595) Royalty and Society (buried at Welshpool), the second son of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke of the second creation, by Anne Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, had purchased the 'Red Castle' in Powis and its lordship from Edward
HERBERT family Northumberland), who had interests on the Welsh border and a strong Welsh element (including a Herbert) in his household. (L. & P. Henry VIII, xv, 355, etc., Addenda, 415). He took part in Somerset's trial (December 1551) and was rewarded with his Wiltshire estates. On 8 April 1550, he was made president of the Council at Ludlow, and in October 1551, baron Herbert of Cardiff and earl of Pembroke. He supported
HERBERT of CHERBURY, 1st Baron - see HERBERT, EDWARD
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire contribution. After the bitter disappointment of 1957 a number of honours came his way, CBE in 1959, and he was then made a life peer, with the title Baron Heycock of Taibach, on 10 July 1967. He became a prominent figure and he was highly respected by his fellow peers in the debates of the House of Lords from 1967 to 1981. There is no evidence in Hansard that he took part in debates after 1981. There were
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure tenure of the seat thus dramatically came to an end - to the intense chagrin of the party in Wales. Shortly afterwards he entered the House of Lords as life peer Baron Hooson of Montgomery and Colomendy in Denbighshire, at once becoming prominent in the affairs of the Upper House, where he was to prove active in improving the Mental Health Act, urged police reforms and spoke on law reform and drug
HOWARD DE WALDEN, 8th Baron - see SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician

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