Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH, JOHN EDWARDS (1843 - 1933), naturalist and antiquary pedigreemaking, of which his natural bent and his family connections made him an ideal devotee. His father, Griffith Griffith of Taldrwst in Llangristiolus, was a descendant of the Penhesgin family of Llanfaethlu, his mother derived from the Hugheses of Plas Coch, an uncle had married a daughter of William Williams (1738 - 1817) of Llandygái, while he himself had married (as second wife) a daughter of Glasfryn
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
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, to join the king before the Civil War broke out, and was consequently fined £1,330. His son HENRY HERBERT (died 1738) became baron Herbert of Cherbury (of the second creation) in 1694. THOMAS HERBERT (1597 - c. 1642), sailor, seventh and posthumous son of Richard Herbert of Montgomery, spent most of his life from thirteen to thirty at sea or under arms, serving in the Low Countries and the Far East
HOLLAND family descendants of the eldest son, EDWARD HOLLAND, continue the main line, which indeed more than once lacked male heirs, yet was perpetuated when a son or grandson of an heiress assumed the Holland surname. In the end, by a marriage of 1738, the property came into the hands of the Williams es of Pwll-y-crochan (today, ' Colwyn Bay'), and afterwards (1821), in like manner, into those of a Scottish family named
HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian a fairly large house-painting business in Basinghall Street. He took to religion, and frequented the society which met at first in James Hutton's house and afterwards in Alders-gate Street and Fetter Lane, before the split between John Wesley and the Moravians; it seems pretty certain that Hutton was the man who read out portions of Luther on Galatians, in Wesley's hearing (14 May 1738) - the
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT (1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist Born 6 June 1827, son of Hugh Robert Hughes of Bache Hall, Cheshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Lance of Wavertree Hall, Lancashire His grandfather, the Rev. EDWARD HUGHES, M.A. (1738 - 1815), was the first of the family to settle at Kinmel, an ancient seat of the Holland family (7), acquiring the estate through purchase at the end of the 18th century. He was the son of HUGH
JONES, CAIN, almanac-maker
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author first time in Monmouthshire in March and April 1738, at Ebwy Fawr (probably in Ty-llwyn), on which occasions the subsequent leaders of Methodism in Monmouthshire were converted, notably John Powell and Morgan John Lewis. Though friendly to Harris, Jones feared that the progress of Methodism among Nonconformists might draw many of them to the Established Church, as Harris desired, in hope of reforming
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, extinct. JANE KEMEYS (died 1747) Sister of the last baronet. She had married, 1704, Sir John Tynte, bart. (1683-1710), of Halswell, Somerset. They had three sons, HALSWELL (1705-1730), JOHN (1707-1740), and CHARLES (1710-1785), and one daughter, JANE (1708-1741). All their grandchildren died young with the exception of JANE (1738-1825), daughter of the afore-mentioned Jane and Ruishe Hassell, major in
LATHROP, RICHARD (d. 1764), bookseller and printer There is no certainty that he was Welsh and his production of Welsh books, including ballads, was but small compared with that of his Shrewsbury contemporaries, Thomas Durston and Stafford Prys. He began as a master printer in 1738 (see Cambriae Suspiria In Obitum … Reginae Carolinae … Authore Tho. Richards), and was admitted a freeman of the ' Combrethren of Saddlers … ' on 22 June 1739. His
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin , daughter of Humphrey Owen II. It is clear that when his father-in-law died Owen Lewis III moved to Llwyn-du. A deed (printed in Mont. Coll., xv., 415-20) sealed 24 February 1738 provides for the future of the lands united by this marriage: the elder son, Lewis Owen III, was to live at Tyddyn-y-garreg, and his younger brother HUMPHREY OWEN at Llwyn-du. The will of Owen Lewis III ('of Llwyn-du'), proved in
LEWIS, FRANCIS (1713 - 1802), one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence , such interest to be paid to her sister Anne Lewis, during her life, and then to her two nephews. (It may be that the above authorities have misread Caernarvon for Llanaravon.) There is little doubt that Francis Lewis was the son of Morgan and Anne Lewis of Newport. Francis Lewis was educated at Westminster. He emigrated to America (in 1734 according to Delafield, in 1738 according to Dictionary of

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