Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister like Nigeria and Singapore, became involved in deciding the future constitution of Kenya, and pressed strongly for the setting up of a Central African Federation. He was seriously considered for promotion to become Foreign Secretary in the spring of 1951 but eventually lost out to Herbert Morrison. In 1955 he was elected at the top of the poll among the candidates for the Shadow Cabinet. During
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster eventually employed a housekeeper to look after his home - and his students. Powell Griffiths, it appears, succeeded J. W. Humphreys in the school that he had established while minister of Mount Pleasant; but such was his enthusiasm for the classics that he also conducted evening classes in Greek and Latin in Rhos and Ponciau. In a biographical note for the Baptist Handbook (1944-1946) Herbert Morgan
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard Edmwnd; and he certainly could be humorous in a mischievous manner. Several cywyddau gofyn and cywyddau diolch by him, in which he shows his gift of description, have been preserved; another aspect of this gift is seen in his description of the Welsh country houses - Cwrt Moelyrch, the home of Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, the house of the parson of Llandrinio, not to speak of the abbey of Valle
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume cemetery, Llanover. Her funeral procession of several hundred was described and depicted with a focus on the fact that the ceremony was conducted in Welsh and had a pointedly Welsh character. Lady Llanover's only surviving child, Augusta Charlotte Elizabeth Herbert (1824-1912) married Arthur Jones of Llanarth (Monmouthshire), of an old Roman Catholic family which assumed the name of Herbert in 1848, on
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) January 1896. Her only surviving child, Augusta, married 12 November 1846, Arthur Jones of Llanarth, of an old Roman Catholic family which later assumed the name of Herbert. Their son, Major-General Sir IVOR CARADOC HERBERT (1851 - 1934), became baron Treowen in 1917. He presented the Llanover MSS. to the National Library of Wales in 1916.
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician (father to Carole). It was through Hayward's union work that he became a close friend and colleague to Ernest Bevin and to Herbert Morrison. At their request he and his family moved to London in 1924. His union was by then known as the Power Workers Group within the TGWU, with Hayward as London district secretary, later General Secretary (1938-1946). At the same time a second strand of his career began
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, The pre-eminence of the Herberts in Mid Wales dates from the settlement at Montgomery early in Henry VIII's reign, of the newly-knighted Sir RICHARD HERBERT (1468 - 1539), protagonist of the Tudor settlement in Mid Wales, son of the Yorkist Sir Richard of Coldbrook (executed with his brother William, 1st earl of Pembroke after the Lancastrian victory at Edgecote, 1469), and nephew of Sir Rhys ap
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 WILLIAM HERBERT, 1st earl of Pembroke of the second creation (c. 1501 - 1570) The eldest son of Sir Richard Herbert ('Ddu') of Ewyas, bastard of William Herbert (died 1469), earl of Pembroke of the first creation, his mother being the daughter of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea, Receiver of Glamorgan. After a wild youth, in the course of which he fought in France and won the favour of the French
HERBERT of CHERBURY, 1st Baron - see HERBERT, EDWARD
HERBERT, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Evangelical cleric son of William Herbert and Judith his wife; born at Rhiwbren, Llanarth, Cardiganshire. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1790, and was ordained in January 1791 by John, bishop of Rochester. Returning to Wales, he became successively curate of Llanddeiniol, July 1796, and Llansantffraed, Cardiganshire, August 1801. He was preferred to the vicariate of the latter place in
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury Born 3 March 1583, at Eyton-on-Severn, son of Richard (died 1596 and Magdalen Herbert, of Montgomery. He entered University College, Oxford, in May 1596, married Mary Herbert in 1599, living at first in London but returning in 1605 to Montgomery where he was appointed magistrate and sheriff. In 1608 he made the first of many journeys to Europe which he describes so vividly in his Life, one of the

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