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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
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator ; (6) Basilikon Doron, 1604, a translation of king James's work made with the assistance of George Owen Harry - this was intended to be the first part of a book including also Harry's Genealogy of the High and Mighty Prince (etc.), but Harry published that independently, in the same year.
HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian , daughter of Thomas Delamotte and thus aunt to the first wife of David Mathias; the Fetter Lane Archives have an autobiography and letters of hers; they have also an interesting account by Holland of the state of religion in Wales between 1735 and 1747, and an incomplete journal of his travels in South Wales in 1746-7 - these documents were printed by Miss Elnith R. Griffiths in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas
teulu HOMFRAY, iron-masters Penydarren cannon, a foundry, forges, etc. (September 1782). The sons arrived with a number of workers from the Midlands and for a time all went well and their works were prosperous. But on account of a quarrel with Bacon, they transferred their lease to David Tanner in 1784. The same year the brothers together took a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district, and with the financial assistance
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure measures of the Heath government. He encapsulated the progressive Welsh Liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s, looking increasingly to the 'second coming' of the Liberal Party in Wales as a worthy successor to the disintegrating Labour Party. At the same time he remained a warm admirer of Lloyd George and the radical 'Yellow Book' proposals of the late 1920s. Perhaps surprisingly, he was a cautious advocate
HOOSON, TOM ELLIS (1933 - 1985), Conservative politician He was born on 16 March 1933, the son of David Maelor Hooson, a farmer, and his wife, Ursula Ellis Hooson. He was a cousin to Emlyn Hooson (born 1925), the former Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, 1962-79, and a grand-nephew to Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), the Liberal MP for Merionethshire, 1886-99, and to the Welsh poet I. D. Hooson (1880-1948). He was educated at Rhyl Grammar School and
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet remarried and had another son, Evan Pugh Hopkins, half-brother to Ben. He was educated at Tan-y-garreg Elementary School, where he learnt cynghanedd and began to compose verses under the guidance of the head-teacher, David Davies, and a local poet, John Rowlands, Dolebolion. Together with his fellow pupil, the writer Tom Hughes Jones, he began to compete in local eisteddfodau. He left school at the age of
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist gyfieithu gan y Parch J.H. Howard … ynghyd â rhagymadrodd gan y Parch. J. Phillips ac A. Murray (1906); Cristionogaeth a chymdeithas, gyda rhagair gan y Gwir Anrhydeddus D. Lloyd George (1914); Life beyond the veil (1918); Which Jesus? Young Britain's choice (1926); Perarogl Crist: cofiant a phregethau y Parch. William Jones, Treforis (1932); Jesus the agitator: foreword by the Rt. Hon. George Lansbury
HOWELL, DAVID (Llawdden; 1831 - 1903), dean Bryncwtyn, near Pen-coed, and his son David helped him on the farm. David Howell attracted the attention of John Griffiths (1820 - 1897), then rector of S. Mary Hill, who persuaded him to go to the 'Eagle School,' Cowbridge. He then went to a tutorial school at Merthyr from which he proceeded to the Llandaff church training college at Abergavenny. He was ordained deacon in 1855 by the bishop of Llandaff
HOWELL, DAVID (1797 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), D. Rowland (Dewi Brefi) of Carmarthen, Edward Richard of Ystradmeurig, Evan Thomas of Llanarth, D. Lloyd of Llwynrhydowen, D. Jones of Llanwrda, John Jenkins (Ioan Siengcyn) of Cardigan, Francis Thomas ('y Crythwr Dall o Geredigion'), Ifan Gruffydd of Tŵr-gwyn, and others. Some of the material for his anthology was obtained by him from what is now
HOWELL, LLEWELYN DAVID (1812 - 1864), Congregational minister, author, and eisteddfodwr

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625 - 636 of 1926 for "david lloyd george"