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HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (bu farw 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer was the son of William Herbert of S. Julians, Monmouth, and great-grandson in the male line of Sir William Herbert (died 1469) 1st earl of Pembroke. His mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Griffith of Penrhyn, Caernarfonshire, from whom he inherited lands in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire to add to his Monmouthshire estates. Although apparently not a university man, he was a great student
teulu HOLLAND Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
teulu HOLLAND . Pennant Ereithlyn, Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 24). A son of his, John Holland (sheriff of Anglesey in 1461), married Elinor, daughter of Ithel ap Hywel of Berw in Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesey, and founded the family of (4) Holland of Berw, separately noticed; DAVID HOLLANT I (b)(see J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 259); his eldest son, GRIFFITH HOLLAND, lived at (5
HOWE, ELIZABETH ANNE (1959 - 2019), ecologist Countryside Council for Wales in 1991 and continued in that role at Natural Resources Wales until her death. She was author of two chapters on the amphibians and reptiles of Anglesey in A New Natural History of Anglesey, published by The Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club (1990). Howe's primary conservation legacy is represented by the critically acclaimed book Habitats of Wales: A Comprehensive
HOWELL, GWILYM (1705 - 1775), almanac-maker and poet edition, Eos Ceiriog, of Huw Morys's work, he made extensive use of this material. Howell's almanacs, Tymhorol Newyddion o'r Wybren, were of high literary standard; they included the works of poets contemporary with the Anglesey Morrises as well as extracts from the earlier poets such as Wiliam Cynwal, Siôn Tudur, and Huw Morys. He published a series of ten, the first being for the year 1766. As he was
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician , Aberystwyth, where he graduated in 1937 with a degree in law. Harri Hughes was a fervent supporter of David Lloyd George and of his daughter, Megan Lloyd George, the Liberal member for Anglesey from 1929. At university, Cledwyn Hughes followed his family's Liberal tradition and he was elected chairman of the Liberal Society. On leaving Aberystwyth, Hughes returned to Holyhead where he worked to obtain
HUGHES, DAVID (Cristiolus Môn; 1810 - 1881), musician Born in Llangristiolus, Anglesey. After some years as schoolmaster at Trefdraeth and elsewhere in Anglesey, and at Rhewl, near Ruthin, he became a reader in the printing-office of Thomas Gee, Denbigh; he was afterwards a book-binder (self-taught) and, still later, an accounts clerk in the service of John Parry, glover, Denbigh and Oswestry. He played a leading part in the founding of an Anglesey
HUGHES, DAVID (bu farw 1609), founder of Beaumaris grammar school Born in the parish of Llantrisant, Anglesey, he may have been the David Hughes of county Caernarvon, born 1561, who entered Gray's Inn from Magdalen College, Oxford, 28 January 1583 (Foster, Alumni. Oxon.; Gray's Inn Admission Register, 28 January 1582-3), but another account of him, claiming to be based on sources not now available, suggests that he was born about 1536 and received no university
HUGHES, DAVID (1800 - 1849), Independent minister Born in Amlwch, Anglesey, the son of a prosperous farmer. He received a good education locally and he also went to a school in Liverpool. He became a member of Tabernacl chapel, Liverpool under the ministry of John Breese and he started to preach there. He was a student at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, 1824-28 and he was ordained minister of Mill Street Chapel, Newport, 1 January 1829
HUGHES, HENRY BAILEY (1833 - 1887), Roman Catholic priest Born at Caernarvon, 1833, where his father, Howell Hughes, was curate, afterwards rector of Trefriw (1833-9) and of Rhoscolyn, Anglesey (1839-48). Henry Bailey Hughes joined the Roman Catholic Church when he was about sixteen. He studied at the Dominican College in Lisbon and, after entering the priesthood, travelled as a missioner in Europe, Africa, and the United States. On returning to Wales
HUGHES, HOWEL HARRIS (1873 - 1956), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth Born 7 September 1873, in Brynteg, Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, Anglesey, son of J. Richard Hughes, a Presb. minister, and Jane his wife. He was educated at Beaumaris grammar school, the University College, Bangor (where he graduated B.A.), and the Theological College, Bala (where he graduated in theology-one of the first two to receive a B.D. degree of the University of Wales). He was ordained in
HUGHES, HUGH (Cadfan Gwynedd, Hughes Cadfan; 1824 - 1898), one of the Welsh pioneers in Patagonia Born 20 August 1824 in Anglesey, the eldest of twelve children. In 1850 he was a carpenter in Caernarvon, moved to Liverpool in 1857, and became one of the principal supporters of the colonial venture. In 1861 he delivered a lecture which he published under the title Llawlyfr y Wladfa Cymreig. He went to the colony with the first batch of emigrants in 1865, became a member of the council, a

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