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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
teulu HOLLAND This surname was borne by so many families (all but one of them in North Wales) that a conspectus of them may prove useful, though few individuals among them call for notice. They all sprang from Lancashire, but it is now not so certain as was formerly thought what exactly was the connection between the two great clans of Welsh Hollands - neither of them (says Thomas Pennant) regarded with much
teulu HOLLAND Berw, Jane had married Ellis Anwyl, rector of Llaniestyn, Caernarfonshire, and their daughter Elizabeth had married Richard Trygarn of Trygarn, Caernarfonshire. It was to ELIZABETH TRYGARN that the estate now came, and after her, to her daughter MARY, born 1727, who had married John Griffiths of Carreglwyd. The old family name is perpetuated, near the (ruined) Plas Berw, by the inn and later hamlet called
HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), poet and traveller Tudyr and the Queene, long since intended to her Maiden Majestie and now dedicated to the Invincible James, 1603; A Cypres Garland. For the Sacred Forehead of our late Soveraigne King James, 1625; commendatory verses to Farnaby's Canzonets, 1598; Ben Jonson's Sejanus, 1605; Bolton's Elements of Armory, 1610; Coryate's The Od-combian Banquet, 1611; Parthenia, 1611; Sir Thomas Hawkin's translation of
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator Anghyfarwydd; (4) a book called Darmerth, neu Arlwy i Weddi, recorded by Moses Williams in 1717 as Holland's work, published at Oxford in 1600 - the view that this was identical with (3) is not now accepted; (5) a translation of Perkins's catechism The Foundation of Xtian Religion, also reissued, 1672, by Stephen Hughes (as Catechism Mr. Perkins) - he says that Holland translated it 'some 70 years' before

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