Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) three weeks of formal schooling at the British School, Llanrwst, before going to work in the leadmines when he was nine. His father took an interest in writing poetry and he was a neighbour and friend of the poet-tailor Trebor Mai (Robert Williams, 1830 - 1877 and it was said that he made Isnant's first suit. However he died when Isnant was 11 so it is unlikely that he had any great influence on the
HARTMANN, EDWARD GEORGE (1912 - 1995), historian and promoter of Welsh-American relations Edward George Hartmann was born on 3 May 1912 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of Louis Hartmann (1877-1954) and his wife Catherine (née Jones-Davies, 1877-1940). Catherine was three years old when her family emigrated to the United States. Her father, Edward R. Jones, came from Penhernwenfach, near Llanwrtyd Wells, in Breconshire. Edward Hartmann recalled that Catherine's mother, Jane
HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), . John's College, Cambridge, and was a classical scholar of repute; high steward of the University of Cambridge from 1863. From 1855 he was chairman of Montgomery quarter sessions, and from 1877, lord-lieutenant for Montgomeryshire. He was first president of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, president of the Powysland club from 1867, of the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1856, and of
HERBERT, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Evangelical cleric August 1812, and with it held the curacy of Llanrhystud (1814) and the perpetual curacy of Rhyd-y-briw, Brecknock (1834). He married Mary Price of Felindre Uchaf, Llanfihangel Ystrad, and by her had five children: the eldest, William (1796 - 1893) followed him at Llansantffraed, where he was vicar from 1836-84, and the only daughter Mary, married David Parry (1794 - 1877), vicar of Llywel. David
HODGES, JEHOIADA (1877? - 1930), Wales and Newport Rugby forward Born 1877? at Newport, he was regarded as one of the most dashing forwards of his day with a capacity for rising to a great occasion. He was noted for doing everything well, whether scrummaging, dribbling, tackling, or passing. Hodges played regularly for the Newport Rugby club and between 1899 and 1906 he played in twenty-three international matches for Wales. The most remarkable experience in
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer being a practising physician for seven years, it was not until 1877 that Frances Hoggan's name was included on the Medical Register. She received her licence from the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, which was the first examining body to open its licentiate examinations to women. In 1875 Hoggan was elected to the British Medical Association, shortly after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest south of St Beuno's - of which the poet wrote in his diary: 'The Rock is a great resort of hawks and owls' - inspired the poem he considered in 1879 to be 'the best thing I ever wrote', 'The Windhover', dedicated 'to Christ Our Lord'. In a Dominican, a practice sermon for trainee Jesuits, delivered on 11 March 1877, Hopkins went so far as to compare the geography of the Vale of Clwyd with the Sea of
HOWELL, DAVID (Llawdden; 1831 - 1903), dean , and priest in 1856. From 1855 to 1859 he was a curate at Neath under his patron, by that time archdeacon Griffiths, and from 1857 to 1861 was secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society. He was appointed successively vicar of Pwllheli (1861), vicar of S. John's, Cardiff (1864), vicar of Wrexham (1875), and vicar of Gresford (1891). In 1877 he was given the degree of B.D. by the archbishop of
HOYLE, WILLIAM EVANS (1855 - 1926), first director of the National Museum of Wales Born 28 January 1855 at Manchester, son of William Jennings Hoyle. He was educated at Owens College and at [ Exeter College and afterwards at] Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1877, M.A. 1882, D.Sc.); he was also M.R.C.S. From 1889 to 1909 he was director of the Manchester Museum, and from 1909 till his retirement in 1924, director of the National Museum of Wales, where there is a portrait in oils. He
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Humphreys Davies (1871-1926), Walter Ernest Llewelyn (1874-1941), and George (b. and d. 1877). She received some of her education as a child at school in Llangeitho, and then at various schools in Aberystwyth, London and Chester. She enrolled at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1892, spending three years there, but did not intend to read for a degree. In 1895, she went to London to keep
HUGHES, EDWARD (1856 - 1925), general secretary and agent of the North Wales Miners Association colliery, Mostyn. At nineteen he walked to Liverpool in order to get a train to the Durham coalfield where he obtained employment at Easington colliery. In 1877 he was married at Easington to Elizabeth, daughter of William and Sarah Hughes, of Lloc, in the parish of Whitford, Flintshire; they had one son and two daughters. Whilst he was working at Easington, a general strike occurred in the county of
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public Born 7 February 1877 in Towyn, Merionethshire, one of the 8 children of Owen, a policeman who ended his career as deputy chief constable of his county, and Catherine Hughes. He became blind in one eye and damaged the other in an accident as a child, a disability which he overcame to a large extent by developing his memory and hearing. He went to Bala grammar school, and lodged with the headmaster

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