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GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author school and the influence of her father were also responsible for her lifelong commitment to Plaid Cymru. The Anglesea Plaid Cymru committee met in Llys Derwydd during the late 1920s and early 1930s and her father had stood bail for Lewis Valentine following the burning at the Penyberth bombing school in 1936. Eirwen joined this new party in 1930. In 1934, Eirwen won a scholarship to study physics at
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster letter sent by the two to the Manchester Guardian in February 1937 has it, was to create 'a synthesis of progressive and nationalist attitudes' which would stand in opposition to the more conservative nationalism of the National Party president Saunders Lewis, on the one hand, and the anti-Welsh elements in the Labour Party on the other. The movement could scarcely have chosen a less propitious time
teulu GWYNNE Kilvey Anglican cathedrals in Cairo and Khartoum and ministered to the 8th Army during World War II. He preached in Swansea in the 1950s. He died 3 December 1957. HOWELL ARTHUR GWYNNE (1865 - 1950), journalist Literature and WritingPrinting and Publishing, C.H. 1938; born Kilvey, 3 September 1865. Educated at Swansea Grammar School (Foundation Scholar) and in Switzerland. He was The Times ' correspondent in the
teulu GWYNNE Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel accused of corruption, and was certainly guilty of exceedingly sharp practice by which he acquired the manor of Builth and the greater part of the hundred of Builth (W. R. Williams, Welsh Judges, 112). His son, MARMADUKE GWYNNE (1670 - 1702) predeceased him, and his possessions passed to his daughter MARY GWYNNE, who married HOWELL GWYNNE (died 1708), of a cadet branch of Glanbrân owning (besides land
GWYNNE, NADOLIG XIMENES (1832 - 1920), soldier and author Cardiff, 1849; died Bournemouth, 1930), the daughter of George William Collins Jackson and Catherine Price Lewis. They had no children. Nadolig Ximenes Gwynne died in Bournemouth on 9 May 1920, aged 87.
teulu HARLEY (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore were able to secure the representation of the shire from 1698 till 1713, and the borough seat in 1604, 1614, 1647-8, 1660-79, and 1690-1715. Their chief rivals in Radnorshire politics were the indigenous Lewis family of Harpton (pedigree in Jonathan Williams, Hist. Radnorshire, 404-6) strong in 'Old Radnor' (Pencraig, in Welsh), and after 1650 owners of the manor of Radnor Forest. In the 19th century
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HARRIES, JOHN (1722 - 1788) Ambleston, early Methodist exhorter 1768 accusing the Brethren of 'taking away Mr. Howell Davies's people,' and Edward Oliver reports that Harries remonstrated vigorously with him in 1770 'for coming among their people, as he called them' - though the two men lodged together at Treddafydd after preaching together, amicably enough, 'in the Methodist Meeting House.' He died at Newport, Pembrokeshire, 7 March 1788, when (according to his
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner medical transcripts and accounts (NLW MS 11702F, NLW MS 11703E, 97, NLW MS 11701C, 672A) dated 1813-31, show that he was practicing in Cwrt-y-cadno throughout this period. Several sources state that he married Elizabeth Emily Lewis, a lawyer's daughter from Fishguard. However, a marriage licence for 8 August 1821 records that John Harries, surgeon and bachelor of Caio parish, married Lettice Rees. His
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer His father, who came from Llangadock, Carmarthenshire, to Talgarth, Brecknock, c. 1700, is called 'Howell Powell alias Harris' in the Talgarth parish register; he married Susanna Powell of Trefeca-fach in 1702. Their eldest son, Joseph Harris and another son, Thomas also made names for themselves. Howel, their youngest son, was born 23 January 1714 and was educated at Llwyn-llwyd. From 1732 to
HARRIS, JOSEPH (Gomer; 1773 - 1825), Baptist minister, and man of letters this undertaking caused him serious losses and was a failure, as were Greal y Bedyddwyr, 1817, and the Drysorfa Efengylaidd, 1806, which he sought to run in conjunction with Titus Lewis (1773 - 1811), his fortnightly Seren Gomer, 1818, was a success. He also published Yr Anghyffelyb Broffeswr (a translation), 1802; Y Beibl Dwy-ieithawg; Gill's Commentary on the New Testament, translated into Welsh by
HARRIS, SOLOMON (1726 - 1785), Arian minister and Academy tutor Calvinist at first but neither Timothy Davis nor the churches at Cilgwyn and Caeronnen were Calvinistic in their views. Accordingly, it is suggested that he was an Arian before 1776 when he co-operated with Lewis Rees of Mynydd-bach in founding the Welsh Independent church in Swansea. In one of the Trevecka letters (at N.L.W.) Solomon Harris is said to have implied that reason, if illuminated by the

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