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HENRY, WILLIAM CHARLES (1804 - 1892), chemist - gweler HENRY, THOMAS
teulu HERBERT 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
teulu HERBERT (earls of POWIS), planned to press his claim to it. In politics he was a Tory. He was buried at Hendon, 28 October 1745, leaving by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Preston, two sons, WILLIAM, 3rd marquess, who died unmarried, aged about 50 in 1748, and EDWARD (died 1734), who had by his wife Henrietta, daughter of the 1st earl of Waldegrave, a posthumous daughter, BARBARA (1735 - 1786), who married HENRY ARTHUR
teulu HERBERT king, he entered the service of Sir Charles Somerset, 1st earl of Worcester, to whom most of the Welsh lands of the earldom of Pembroke had been transferred on his marriage to the 1st earl's daughter, and through his patron's influence he obtained preferment at the court of Henry VIII, which was accelerated after the king married Herbert's sister-in-law Catherine Parr (1543), when he was knighted and
HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state remaining vacant till 1614; although retaining his secretaryship in name he took no further part in public affairs, and did not sit in the 1614 Parliament. He died at Cardiff on 9 July 1617, after (perhaps in consequence of) a duel fought with Sir Lewis Tresham in May. By his wife Margaret, daughter of William Morgan of Cefn Coch (or of Pen-clawdd), he had an only daughter.
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (bu farw 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer , especially of divinity, and of alchemy and astrology (on which he corresponded with John Dee), and was well versed in the classics. He married Florentia, daughter of William Morgan of Llantarnam (died 1582), his father's colleague in the representation of the shire and father of his own colleague. He leased Newport castle (26 October 1578) and Elizabeth made him deputy constable of Conway castle (8 July
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (bu farw 1469), soldier and statesman given the custody of the young Henry, earl of Richmond, whom he betrothed in his will to his daughter Maud; he was made a K.G. (April 1462) and became a member of the king's Inner Council. The feud between Herbert and Warwick became embittered when Herbert's son and heir, William, was made lord Dunster (September 1466), and especially when Herbert accompanied the king to demand the Great Seal from the
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire Paddington. He worked on the railway all his life. In his spare time he immersed himself in the chapel culture, the activities of his union (the NUR), the classes of the National Council of Labour Colleges and Sunday school classes. He was influenced by the pioneers of the Labour Movement locally, among them Henry Davies (died 1927 and to whose memory the headquarters of the Taibach Labour Group were
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books singular goodness.' His portrait hangs in Ironmongers' Hall. With him ended the direct line of Heylin of Pentreheylin, the estate passing through the marriage of his daughter to the Niccols and the Congreves. His nephew Henry Heylin became the father of PETER HEYLIN (1599 - 1662), a theologian, who is noticed in D.N.B.
HICKS, HENRY (1837 - 1899), physician and geologist
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer Frances Hoggan was the first Welsh woman to qualify as a medical doctor and a leading figure in the campaign to improve girls' education in Wales in the early 1880s. Born as Frances Morgan in Brecon on 20 December 1843, she was the eldest of five children of Georgiana Catherina (née Philipps) and Richard Morgan, curate of St. John's Priory, Brecon. She grew up Aberafan and, following her father's

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