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GWYNNE, SACKVILLE (c. 1751 - 1794) knowledge, a daughter of one of the Glanbrân tenants, and accordingly parts of the estate were left (1774) to his younger brother. His wife died in 1787; he re-married in 1793, but died before the birth of a daughter in August 1794. He was noted as a lover of the harp. Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) affirms that Gwynne was one of the finest players of his day upon the triple harp. He was also a patron of
GWYNNE-VAUGHAN, DAVID THOMAS (1871 - 1915), botanist
HAINES, WILLIAM (1853 - 1922), local historian and bibliographer Born 24 May 1853, at Bryn, Penpergwm, Monmouthshire, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Haines. Educated at the grammar school, Abergavenny, he became a solicitor's clerk. He married (1) 1876, Clara Ann Rutherford (died 1880), of Rockhampton, Gloucestershire, and (2) Mary Nicholas (died 1944) of Llangibby, Monmouth, who shared her husband's literary interests. Haines collected an extensive library of
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume Cymreigyddion members, among them Lady Llanover, also founded and patronised the Welsh Manuscripts Society in 1836. Lady Llanover was one of the main advocates of the triple harp as a national instrument in nineteenth-century Wales. An accomplished harp player herself, she revived the tradition of the family harpist by employing John Wood Jones (1800-1844) from shortly after 1826, his pupil Thomas Gruffydd
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) sister had already married baron Bunsen (later German ambassador to Great Britain) whose circle was interested in Celtic studies. In 1834 she won a prize at a Cardiff eisteddfod for an essay on the Welsh language, and at this time seems to have adopted the pseudonym Gwenynen Gwent. Under the influence of Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) she became an early member of ' Cymreigyddion y Fenni.' Although she
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician on coal. He was awarded honorary LL.D. degrees by the University of Birmingham in 1945 (of which Anthony Eden was chancellor) and the University of Wales in 1946. Always a faithful member of the Church in Wales he was elected a member of its Representative Body. Lord Hall was twice married: (1) to Margaret, died of William Jones of Ynysybwl, 12 October 1910. She died 24 July 1941. There were two
teulu HANBURY, industrialists rolling iron plates by means of cylinders and introduced the art of tinning into England.' In these improvements, his agent Thomas Cooke, of Stourbridge, was the inventor of the rolling mill; William Payne is accredited with the improvements in the production of a more malleable kind of iron; while Edward Allgood's name (see Allgood) is associated with improvements in wire-drawing and in the tinning of
teulu HANMER Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, This family is of English origin, tracing its descent to Sir Thomas de Macclesfield, an officer of Edward I who settled in Maelor Saesneg (now a detached portion of Flintshire), he and his successors marrying Welsh heiresses descended from Rhys Sais or Tudur Trevor and acquiring estates in the neighbourhood, from one of which the family name was taken. His great-grandson Sir DAVID HANMER (died c
HARDING, Sir JOHN DORNEY (1809 - 1868), Queen's Advocate Born at Rockfield, Monmouthshire, in 1809. For some time he was a private pupil under Thomas Arnold and then proceeded to Oriel College, Oxford, to complete his education. He obtained his B.A. degree in 1830, M.A. 1833 and D.C.L. in 1837. In that year he commenced to practise as an advocate at Doctors' Commons. In 1852 he was appointed Queen's Advocate, a post which he retained until 1862. He was
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) young boy. Gwilym Cowlyd (William John Roberts had only recently set up Gorsedd Geirionydd and a series of eisteddfodau on the banks of Llyn Geirionydd and it is against this background that the boy took seriously to learning the cynganeddion, mastering the handbook Yr Ysgol Farddol by Dafydd Morganwg (David Watkin Jones, and to competing in eisteddfodau. After giving up work at Nant, he worked for 15
teulu HARLEY (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore connections with Wales. THOMAS HARLEY (1548? - 1631) was a member of the Council of the Marches, made a vain attempt to get the stewardship of Maelienydd, but in 1601 bought Wigmore, where his son, Sir ROBERT HARLEY (1579 - 1656) was born. This Robert (Member of Parliament for Radnor borough, 1604-11) was at Oriel College, Oxford, where his tutor was Cadwaladr Owen (1562 - 1617) of Maentwrog, Meironnydd
HARRIES, HYWEL (1921 - 1990), art teacher, artist, cartoonist he obtained his diploma in 1947. He was art master in a school in Ealing for a year in 1948 and he married Caroline Thomas of Pontypridd the same year: they had two children, David who died young, and Carol. He returned to Wales as art master at Machynlleth secondary school in 1950 and in 1954 he became head of the art department in Arwyn grammar school, Aberystwyth, and then, following local

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