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HARRIES, EVAN (1786 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Ty'n-y-llan, Llan-wrtyd, Brecknock, 7 March 1786, son of Henry and Anne Harries and younger brother of William Harries of Trevecka. He married 1808, Maria, daughter of the Rev. Dafydd Parry of Llanwrtyd. In 1812, having been converted under the ministry of Ebenezer Richard, he joined the church at Pontrhyd-y-bere and began to preach in 1814. In 1818 he went to live at Brecon where he set
HARRIES, JOHN (1722 - 1788) Ambleston, early Methodist exhorter parish. On the death of Howel Davies (1770), Harries (who was a well-to-do farmer) superintended the whole Methodist work in the county until the arrival of Nathaniel Rowland; according to William Gambold, 'he was one of the strictest and most approved of men, universally beloved'; and Rowland Hill thought very highly of him. He strove hard to stem the Moravian tide in Pembrokeshire: we find him in
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer refusal was repeated more than once subsequently - and for the same reason). He consulted Griffith Jones who besought him without success to be more moderate. In 1737 he came into contact with Daniel Rowland and the two began to work together. Among their earliest converts were Howel Davies and William Williams of Pantycelyn. In 1742 these formed themselves and their adherent societies into an
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint so it was that Samuel Hughes, 'of Tregunter,' became sheriff of his county in 1790. They had two daughers, AMELIA SOPHIA who died in 1794, and ELIZA ANNE HUGHES, who married firstly Roderick Gwynne, Buckland. He died 20 March 1808, and she married William Alexander Madocks, 2 April 1818.
HARRIS, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1956), priest, Professor of Welsh, St. David's College, Lampeter
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HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor Born 1754, the second son of James Hassall of Cardigan (1718-1787) and Martha Rose of Stourbridge (died 1795), resided at Eastwood near Narberth. He married Dorothy Bullfinch (died 1845) and had three children, the Rev. William Hassall of Llyswen (1788-1849), Oriana Hassall (1790-1809) and George Hassall (born and died 1792). An agricultural pioneer and colourful figure, he achieved some
HATTON, ANN JULIA (Ann of Swansea; 1764 - 1838), poet and novelist Born 29 April 1764 at Worcester, the seventh child of Roger Kemble (see Siddons, Sarah) and Sarah Ward. Lameness prevented her from following the family theatrical tradition and, before she was nineteen, she was unlucky enough to marry and be forsaken by an adventurer named Curtis. She published by subscription, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (London, 1783). She married William Hatton in 1792
HAVARD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1889 - 1956), bishop Born 23 October 1889 at Neuadd Defynnog, Brecknockshire, 3rd son of William Havard, a deacon of Tabernacl (Congl.) chapel, Defynnog, and Gwen his wife. He was educated at Brecon county school; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (graduated B.A. 3rd-class honours in history, 1912); St. Michael's College, Llandaff; Jesus College, Oxford (M.A., 1921). He was ordained deacon by John Owen, Bishop
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author . Prys-Jones), she used traditional forms with an effect which occasionally echoed W.H. Davies, leading 'Wil Ifan' (William Evans) to call her 'Gwent's Second Voice'.
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician Isaac Hayward was born on 17 November 1884 in a two-bedroomed terraced house in King Street, Blaenafon, Monmouthshire, the third of five children to survive out of eight born to Thomas Hayward (1848-1925), engine fitter, and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née French, 1848-1925). He had two brothers and two sisters: Thomas, Elizabeth, Alice Louisa, and William Frederick. Isaac was raised a Baptist and
HEATH, CHARLES (1761 - 1830), printer topography of Monmouthshire. Whilst the arrangement of the material in his books shows little sign of literary or critical judgement, his works were an invaluable source of information to later historians, including David Williams, archdeacon William Coxe, and Sir Joseph A. Bradney. His first publication was A Descriptive account of Raglan Castle, 1792. Other well-known works, of which several reached

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