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HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state The second son of Matthew Herbert of Swansea and grandson of Sir George Herbert, the first known M.P. for Glamorgan and the son of Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas, illegitimate son of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (see Herbert, earls of Pembroke). He was admitted an honorary member of the College of Advocates (November 1573), joint commissioner of the Court of Admiralty with Dr. David Lewis
teulu HILL, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil were minors, the estate was placed in Chancery, and the receiver, William Bacon, granted a lease of the Plymouth furnace for fifteen and a half years from Christmas Day 1786, to Richard Hill I, during the minority of Thomas Bacon; this was approved by the Court of Chancery. Hill entered into an arrangement with Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa, to supply the latter with pig-iron, and seeing the
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), cyfreithiwr, sefydlydd ysgol ramadeg Croesoswallt . Rolls, 1408-13, 283) mai ar gais 'David Holbache, yswain' y rhoddwyd ef. Rhwng 1418 a 1421 (nid yw'r dogfennau cynharaf ar gael) gwaddolodd Holbache ysgol ramadeg rad yng Nghroesoswallt, y gyntaf o'i bath yng Nghymru; chwanegwyd at y gwaddol gan ei weddw Gwenhwyfar. Profwyd ei ewyllys yn 1423; ni adawodd ond gweddw a merch. Ar gam yr awgryma Leland mai ef oedd y 'David ' a sefydlodd yr 'Inn of Court
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School proved in 1423; he left a widow and a daughter. Leland (Itinerary in Wales, ed. Toulmin Smith, 75) was mistaken when he suggested that David Holbache was the 'David' who founded the Inn of Court in Holborn called 'Thavies Inn.'
HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), bardd a theithiwr ymneilltuodd i Rydychen a threulio peth amser yno yn darllen yn y llyfrgelloedd; cysyllta traddodiad ei enw â Choleg Balliol. Wedi hynny bu'n byw yn Llundain ar ôl treulio rhai blynyddoedd yn yr Inns of Court. Ar ôl iddo fod yn trafaelio yr oedd yn disgwyl rhyw fath o swydd neu fywoliaeth, ac am na chafodd un ' he grumbled out the rest of his life in visible discontent ' (Fuller). Gellir casglu oddi wrth rai
HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), poet and traveller there reading at the libraries, and tradition associates his name with Balliol College. Later he lived in London after spending some years at the Inns of Court. After his travels he expected some preferment, and not getting it ' he grumbled out the rest of his life in visible discontent ' (Fuller). From his poems, especially his Cypress Garland, 1625, we learn that he found one patron in George
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure ' along with Myra Hindley, when Brady was tried and convicted on three murder charges at Chester Crown Court in spring 1966. In 1970 he appeared for the Ministry of Defence at a public inquiry over plans to move its experimental range from Shoeburyness to Pembrey, near Carmarthen. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Flintshire Quarter Sessions, 1960-72, Deputy Chairman of the Merionethshire Quarter
HOPKIN, LEWIS (c. 1708 - 1771), poet under the title of Dagrau yr Awen. Another of Lewis Hopkin's sons was HOPKIN HOPKIN (1737 - 1754), known as ' Hopcyn Bach,' a dwarf, of whom there is an account in Gent. Mag., 1754, 191 and, more fully, in Hopkiniaid Morganwg, 108-11. He was exhibited in London; he never weighed more than 17 lb., and is said to have died of 'mere old age.' His suit, court coat and gauntlet are today in the National
HOWELL, JAMES (1594? - 1666), author tour in France in 1622 led to his being used on diplomatic errands. From 1622 to 1624 he was on a mission in Spain and Sardinia, and in 1632 he was at the Danish court, where his command of Latin proved useful. In 1627 he was elected as M.P. for Richmond, Yorkshire. After 1639 he acted as a secret agent for Strafford, the lord deputy of Ireland, and consequently, in 1643, the Commons put him in the
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), arloeswr addysg dechnegol yn Seland Newydd Aberystwyth, er cof am y Prifathro Thomas Charles Edwards, ac Undeb Cynulleidfaol Lloegr a Chymru, at addysg plant gweddwon (A), a deuparth tuag at wasanaeth Cymdeithasol y Crynwyr. Bu farw 20 Mehefin 1944. Yr oedd ganddo ddwy chwaer, Esther Mary, a fu'n ddiacones yn Dudley 1897-1900, Manceinion a Salford, 1900-02, ac o 1902 hyd 1944 yng nghenhadaeth Whitefields, Tottenham Court Road. Bu'r chwaer arall
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand and Salford, 1900-02, and from 1902 to 1944 in the Whitefield Mission in Tottenham Court Road; and Mary Emma, who was at one time governess in the family of Sir Richard Martin in Llansamlet, a nurse in Swansea hospital for a period from 1895, and in military hospitals in South Africa, India and Egypt; and matron of an infectious diseases hospital under the Egyptian government.
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public of the National Eisteddfod and was drama adjudicator in the festival many times. He showed much zeal for the unity of the University of Wales and served regularly on its committees. He worked for Undeb Cymru Fydd during the difficult years of World War II and afterwards. He was a member of the court of governors of N.L.W. He presided over the Swansea and Llanelli branch of the Historical

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