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teulu HANMER Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, devoted part of the Bettisfield tithe to the encouragement of preaching in his parish. His younger brother ROGER HANMER of Gredington, (died 1675) supported Parliament in the Civil War and Commonwealth, but his elder son Sir THOMAS HANMER was a somewhat lukewarm adherent of Charles I, whom he served as cupbearer and who proposed him to prince Rupert as vice-president of Wales. His houses were more than
teulu HARLEY (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore horse for Herefordshire and Radnorshire in 1646. But he made his peace with Charles II, was knighted in 1660, became governor of Dunkirk, and sat either for Radnor borough or for Herefordshire in all the parliaments of Charles II. Though he conformed, he opposed the Clarendon Acts and was popular among the Dissenters; he welcomed William of Orange. He died at Brampton Bryan 8 December 1700. He was the
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
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor , Greville, and the Foleys, whilst Sir Thomas Picton condescended to fight a duel with him over a quarrel which originated in a ball-room. Charles and his older brother Thomas (1750-1813) have been called 'two of the best-known agriculturists in Wales' of the time, pioneering land improvement measures, such as draining wetlands, but both also acted as Commissioners of Enclosures for Pembrokeshire
HEATH, CHARLES (1761 - 1830), printer
HENRY, PHILIP (1631 - 1696), Presbyterian minister and diarist Born 24 August 1631; his father came from Briton Ferry in Glamorgan, migrated to London, where he tended the king's gardens in Whitehall; there young Philip came into contact with Charles I's two sons and with archbishop Laud. His foster-father was Philip, 4th earl of Pembroke; in 1643 he became one of Busby's pupils at Westminster school; in 1647 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, with a
HENRY, THOMAS (1734 - 1816), apothecary, physician, and chemist , M.D., F.R.S. (12 January 1774 - 2 September 1836), who formulated what is known as 'Henry's Law' and published an important treatise on chemistry. William, again, was the father of WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY, M.D., F.R.S. (31 March 1804 - 7 January 1892), friend of Dalton and noted chemist. The son and grandson were born at Manchester.
HENRY, WILLIAM CHARLES (1804 - 1892), chemist - gweler HENRY, THOMAS
teulu HERBERT Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, Thomas. Richard had attached himself to the rising fortunes of Sir Charles Somerset, later lord Herbert of Raglan and 1st earl of Worcester, who succeeded to the Pembroke estates and influence through his wife Elizabeth Herbert, grand-daughter of the 1st earl and second cousin of Sir Richard. Having occupied minor offices at court and in South Wales under Henry VII, Herbert became his patron's agent in
teulu HERBERT (earls of POWIS), for Charles I, whom he once entertained there, during the Civil War, but was forced to surrender to Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2 October 1644. His wife was Eleanor, third daughter of the earl of Northumberland. A protégé of the earl of Pembroke (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 70), his Romanist leanings did not embarrass him, but in later life he appears to have grown
teulu HERBERT king, he entered the service of Sir Charles Somerset, 1st earl of Worcester, to whom most of the Welsh lands of the earldom of Pembroke had been transferred on his marriage to the 1st earl's daughter, and through his patron's influence he obtained preferment at the court of Henry VIII, which was accelerated after the king married Herbert's sister-in-law Catherine Parr (1543), when he was knighted and
HERBERT, GEORGE (1593 - 1633), cleric and poet Praelector in Rhetoric and, in 1620, Public Orator. He delivered a number of orations, but resigned the post in 1626, as his interest had turned elsewhere. In January 1624, he was elected as member of Parliament for Montgomery borough, and in 1625 he sat in the first parliament of Charles I. However, he decided to abandon a secular career. He already held a sinecure as comportioner of the rectory of

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