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HOLLAND, HUGH
(1569 - 1633), poet and traveller
Born at Denbigh, son of Robert
Holland
of that town (see
Holland
families (6)). Hugh
Holland
was educated at Westminster School, under Camden, where he was distinguished for his classical scholarship. In 1589 he was elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge; he may have been elected later to a Fellowship. On leaving Cambridge he travelled abroad, visiting Rome and Jerusalem. At Rome
HOLLAND, ROBERT
(1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator
Born at Conway (christened there 18 January 1556/7), third son of Hugh Gwyn
Holland
- see
Holland
families (1). He matriculated from Clare College, Cambridge, at Easter 1577, graduated from Magdalene in 1577/1578, and proceeded M.A. from Jesus in 1581. On 15 January 1580/1 he was ordained deacon (on a title from his father) at Bangor; he was priested at Ely in April 1580, and licensed curate of
HOLLAND, SAMUEL
(1803 - 1892), a pioneer of the North Wales slate industry and chief promoter of the establishment of Dr. Williams's school for girls at Dolgelley
Born 17 October 1803 in Duke Street, Liverpool, son of Samuel
Holland
(who was interested in lead and copper mines and slate quarrying in North Wales) and Katherine (Menzies). Educated in various schools in England and in Germany, he started to work in his father's office in Liverpool. His connection with Wales, which was to remain unbroken until his death, began in 1821 when he was sent by his
HOLLAND, WILLIAM
(1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian
Born at Haverfordwest 16 January 1711, son of Nicholas
Holland
, of the Hollands of Walwyn's Castle - see
Holland
families (2); Nicholas
Holland
was great-great-grandson of Robert
Holland
. According to Moravian tradition, William
Holland
was at Haverfordwest grammar school at the same time as bishop John Gambold; he does not seem to have been Welsh -speaking. Before 1732 he was in London, and had
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
(1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist
Born 6 June 1827, son of Hugh Robert Hughes of Bache Hall, Cheshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Lance of Wavertree Hall, Lancashire His grandfather, the Rev. EDWARD HUGHES, M.A. (1738 - 1815), was the first of the family to settle at Kinmel, an ancient seat of the
Holland
family (7), acquiring the estate through purchase at the end of the 18th century. He was the son of HUGH
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT
(fl. c. 1720), poet
and native (apparently) of Rhagat, near Corwen, Meironnydd. Some of his work is preserved in manuscripts, and this includes 'begging poems' written to Thomas Carter of Kinmel and Thomas
Holland
of Teirdan, and various englynion which include praises to John Rhydderch, the Shrewsbury printer, two upon the grave of Huw Morys, the poet, a number satirizing Newborough in Anglesey; these last drew
HUW LLIFON
(fl. c. 1570-1607), poet and sexton
of Llanefydd, Denbighshire. Some of his work remains in manuscripts and this includes religious englynion, a cywydd to the Holly Tree at Meifod, another begging a gown for the poet from David
Holland
of Kinmel, and an elegy upon the death in 1607/8 of Ffowc ap Rhobert of Meiriadog, Denbighshire. It is evident that he lived to a fairly great age; references to this are found in the last two of
IEUAN LLWYD SIEFFRAI
(fl. c. 1599-1619), poet
of Rhûg (see the article on that family), which asserts a close relationship between himself and the poet, englynion of praise to Pirs Griffith of Penrhyn, others welcoming Richard Hughes to Penllyn, a cywydd of thanks to Robert Vaughan of Llwydiarth (see article on that family) for welcoming the poet to his home, another begging a sword from Maredudd ap Huw Lewys for Foulkes
Holland
, and a few
JONES, JACK
(1884 - 1970), author and playwright
two exhausting lecture-tours in the United States and Canada, and later he visited troops on the European battlefronts, in Belgium and
Holland
in 1944, in Italy in 1945. He also produced The Man David (1944), 'an imaginary presentation, based on fact, of the life of David Lloyd George from 1880 to 1914 '. In the general election of 1945 he supported the candidature of Conservative, Sir James Grigg
LEWYS ap HYWEL
(fl. c. 1560-1600), poet
No details concerning him are available, but from the fact that the subjects of his poetry of praise and elegy were mainly persons from Denbighshire and Flintshire, it is probable that the poet himself was a native of that part of Wales. A number of his poems remain in MSS., and these include cywyddau addressed to William Mostyn of Mostyn, Pierce Mostyn of Talacre, William
Holland
of Hendre fawr
teulu
LLOYD
Peterwell,
1747 until his death in 1755. John Lloyd married (1) Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Isaac Le Hemp (or Le Hoop), who is mentioned in Paul Whitehead The State Dunces, and (2) a Miss Savage. He was an intimate friend of many well-known men of the day including Henry Fox (afterwards lord
Holland
) Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Richard Rigby, the paymaster-general. In 1750 he became the owner
teulu
LLOYD
Bodidris,
April 1700) of the latter's son Sir EVAN LLOYD, who upheld the family's military tradition by fighting in
Holland
at the head of a Welsh company in 1673.
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