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HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume financially supported Daniel Silvan Evans when he was preparing his multi-volume dictionary. Combining ardent Protestantism with a love of Welsh, she endowed two Calvinist Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based upon the Book of Common Prayer. Her belief in temperance led her to convert inns and pubs in the area into
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
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter manager Bill Collins, who in 1966 moved them into his house in North London. Two years of gigging, songwriting and recording demos in penurious conditions (and a personnel change, with Liverpudlian Tom Evans replacing Jenkins) paid off when The Iveys were signed by the Beatles' record label, Apple, in July 1968. Pete's early compositions, which had caught the ear of Paul McCartney, were a factor in
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
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
HARRIES, ISAAC HARDING (bu farw c. 1868), Independent minister, and editor of periodicals The date and place of his birth are uncertain, but he began preaching at Beaufort in Brecknock, went to the Neuadd-lwyd Academy, and was minister at Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, 1831-5. At this period he delivered eloquent addresses on behalf of the Bible Society; one of these was published, together with Sylwedd Pregeth under the same cover, at Caernarvon (72 pp. printed by Peter Evans). Early
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer Thomas Roberts of Trevecka (at the National Library of Wales). She seems to have been good-hearted and impulsive, and to have become increasingly irked by the strict regime at Trevecka after the death of her father. On 10 May 1782 she was married at Talgarth to Charles Prichard, surgeon, of Brecon; the witnesses were her two cousins Samuel Hughes and Elizabeth Robinson (see Harris, Thomas); the entry
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint member of the Cymmrodorion Society. He died 26 September 1764; he was buried in the Tower. His wife (died May 1763) was Anne, daughter and co-heiress of his former neighbour Thomas Jones of Tredustan. Their daughter, ANNA MARIA HARRIS, married SAMUEL HUGHES (he was one of the witnesses of the marriage of Elizabeth, Howel Harris's daughter); to her was left the property of her uncle Thomas Harris; and
HARRIS, JOSEPH (Gomer; 1773 - 1825), Baptist minister, and man of letters himself, Titus Lewis, and Christmas Evans; and Cofiant Ieuan Ddu, a memoir of his son, J. Ryland Harris. He died 10 August 1825 shortly after his fifty-second birthday.

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