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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
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
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
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Ben T. Hopkins was born on 3 December 1897 at Waunhelyg, Lledrod, Ceredigion, the son of Ifan Hopkins (1851-1931), carpenter, and his wife Mary (née Jones, 1859-1897). His mother died a week after his birth and he was brought up by his mother's sister and brother, Margaretta Jones (1867-1944) and Dafydd Jones (1854-1929), at Triael, Blaenpennal, a smallholding which is now a ruin. His father
HORSFALL TURNER, ERNEST RICHMOND (1870 - 1936), schoolmaster and local historian movement in Montgomeryshire and his manuscripts are now at the National Library of Wales. He was elected a member of Llanidloes town council in 1901, and was twice mayor of the town, 1908 and 1927-28. In 1897 he married Annie, daughter of J.N. Crowther, and they had a son who was town clerk at Aberystwyth. His wife died in 1923. He died at Llanidloes, 13 March 1936, and was buried there.
HOWE, ELIZABETH ANNE (1959 - 2019), ecologist Warren, north Wales, and Ynyslas, part of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve, mid Wales. She also led a similar project at Presthaven Sands, Gronant Dunes and Talacre Warren to create appropriate habitat for the rare Natterjack Toad. This project has been so successful that the site has now become a donor of Natterjack spawn to re-establish other locations. Howe advised on species conservation measures
HOWELL, JAMES (1594? - 1666), author refer to what he considered the racial and linguistic affinities of his people. As a writer he is now chiefly remembered for his Familiar Epistles. Into them Howell pours all his knowledge of men and affairs and his insatiable curiosity in many fields. Their liveliness has combined with their natural style to win for them a lasting popularity.
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), D. Rowland (Dewi Brefi) of Carmarthen, Edward Richard of Ystradmeurig, Evan Thomas of Llanarth, D. Lloyd of Llwynrhydowen, D. Jones of Llanwrda, John Jenkins (Ioan Siengcyn) of Cardigan, Francis Thomas ('y Crythwr Dall o Geredigion'), Ifan Gruffydd of Tŵr-gwyn, and others. Some of the material for his anthology was obtained by him from what is now
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, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman her spiritual experiences are amplified, and they are now described as 'visions'. She would see her fellow-creatures some 'in a good place, and the others she would see in a bad place'. Memories were preserved of a vision of her landlord, named 'Cyffyn', whom she saw 'with insects crawling on his gums'; or Evan Davies, Cae Pant, who was rewarded with 'a very good place' for his generosity to the
HUGHES, HUGH (1790 - 1863), artist and author acquaintance with David Charles (1762 - 1834) at Carmarthen, and now began to publish books and magazines at that town; Yr Hynafion Cymreig, 1823-4; Yr Addysgydd, 1823-4; and Brut y Cymry, 1824, (one number only). On 20 February 1827 he married Charles's daughter Sarah, and they went to live in London (Soho). But in 1828 a storm broke over Hughes's head. He had signed (with Thomas Edwards, 1779 - 1858, and

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