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HAINES, WILLIAM (1853 - 1922), local historian and bibliographer now preserved in the National Library of Wales in ten manuscript volumes (NLW MS 7541E, NLW MS 7542E, NLW MS 7543E, NLW MS 7544E, NLW MS 7545E, NLW MS 7546E, NLW MS 7547E, NLW MS 7548E, NLW MS 7549E, NLW MS 7550E) the gift of his widow. With this material are preserved six other Haines manuscripts (NLW MS 7551B, NLW MS 7552B, NLW MS 7553-7554B, NLW MS 7555B, NLW MS 7556B), containing letters
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) spoke but little Welsh she organized her household on what were considered Welsh lines and gave Welsh titles to her servants. She was a patron of the Welsh Manuscripts Society and of the Welsh Collegiate Institution at Llandovery. She acquired the manuscripts of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) now in the National Library of Wales, by purchase from Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo). She collaborated
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician retained his seat with large majorities (twice unopposed) until he was elevated to the peerage in 1946. In the 1929 Labour Government he was given office as Civil Lord of the Admiralty. During the years 1931-35 he matured greatly as a parliamentarian. Hitherto he had concentrated mainly on the affairs of the coalmining industry of which he had an expert knowledge, but now, owing to the depleted ranks of
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter nomination and two Ivor Novello awards. It remains one of the most covered songs from the 1970s pop canon, and Mariah Carey would return Without You to the top of the UK charts in 1994. Despite mixed contemporary reviews, 1971's Straight Up - produced in part by George Harrison - is now widely considered Badfinger's strongest album. The former Beatle's respect for Pete's musicianship was much noted
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
teulu HARLEY (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore formation of the great Harleian collections now in the British Museum - he employed the great antiquary Humfrey Wanley (see in D.N.B.) as cataloguer and librarian. The Harleian manuscripts have laid students of the history of Wales under a very heavy debt - they include, e.g. the famous ' Harley 3859,' containing Nennius and the Annales Cambriae; there are also masses of Welsh genealogical material, such
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician his parents instilled in him the importance of the Welsh nonconformist values of temperance and education. However, at the age of twelve, as was the norm, he had to leave school to work down the local mine, (now Big Pit). Every night he and his brothers and sisters educated themselves, borrowing books from the Workman's Hall. Aged fifteen he became a mine engineering apprentice. He became active at
HENRY (1457 - 1509), king of England August when Richard III, the last Yorkist monarch, is killed, and Henry proclaimed king in his place. It was now felt that Wales had recovered her old independence as foreordained in the vaticinations of the bards. Though he barely set foot in Wales after his accession, the king was not unmindful of his Welsh associations, and particular of his indebtedness to the men of South Wales. If only three
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state Cecil's removal to the Lords threw on Herbert the task of defending royal policy in the Commons; and although he had sat there since 1586 - first for English boroughs, then for Glamorgan (1601) and Monmouthshire (1604-11) - he was no politician. When his patron and colleague Cecil (now earl of Salisbury) died in 1610, Herbert was chagrined at not succeeding him as principal secretary, the office
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (bu farw 1469), soldier and statesman Walter, lord Ferrers of Chartley. After the battle of Northampton (July 1460) Warwick gave him extensive authority in South Wales. In October he represented Hereford in Parliament. Henceforth he threw in his lot with the Yorkists, and this largely explains their victory at Mortimer's Cross (2 February 1461). His rise in royal favour was now rapid. He was made a privy chancellor, and was present at
teulu HILL, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil Bacon, who had been granted the Plymouth works under his father's will, became of age, and agreed to surrender to Richard Hill I all his interest in the Plymouth works, and this he confirmed in 1803 when he was 24 years of age. Being now in full possession of the Plymouth works, he with his sons, Richard II and JOHN HILL, entered into an agreement with the Dowlais and Penydarren iron companies for the
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier interests contemptuous of his upstart efforts at every stage and by the 1970s, as the scale of national and international financial operations increased, his go-it-alone approach was no longer working so well. Hodge, too, was now about to enter his later years. The unit trusts were sold in 1970 to First Finsbury Trust, a subsidiary of Vehicle & General Insurance, which was later to write an ignoble note

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