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HOWELL, JAMES (1594? - 1666), author Second son of Thomas Howell, curate of Llangamarch, Brecknock, and later rector of Cynwil and Aber-nant, Carmarthenshire. Educated at Hereford Free School, James Howell entered Jesus College Oxford in 1610 and graduated in 1613. He took up a business career and after 1616 travelled on the Continent for some years. The knowledge of foreign languages that he acquired during this period and on a
HOWELL, JENKIN (1836 - 1902), printer, writer, musician son of John Howell (died 1841) and his wife Gwen, of Tor-foel, Penderyn, Brecknock. He had little schooling, being apprenticed at eight years old to a shoe-maker; five years afterwards he went to work at Pont-Neath-Vaughan. When fourteen, he was at Merthyr Tydfil, a town of poets and musicians and of eisteddfodau; thence he moved to Aberdare, where he attended night-schools kept by John Anthony
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician
HOWELL, JOHN (bu farw 1880), farmer - gweler HOWELL, DAVID
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand Born at Frampton Cotterell, near Bristol in 1869, third child of William Mends Howell (1838 - 1873), minister of the Congl. chapel there, a native of Narberth, Pembrokeshire, and his wife Harriet (née Brown); educated at Lewisham School (Caterham), his name appears twice on the school's roll of honour. At the end of his period at the school he won a scholarship to Cambridge, but it was
HOWELL, LLEWELYN DAVID (1812 - 1864), Congregational minister, author, and eisteddfodwr
HOWELL, THOMAS (bu farw 1540?), philanthropist a Monmouthshire Welshman who made provision in his will (written in 1540 at Seville, Spain) for the benefit of spinsters of his kith and kin in Wales on their marriage. Howell left 12,000 ducats to be handed over to the wardens of Drapers Hall, London, to be by them invested (in the purchase of land in the City of London) - ' … the said Wardeynes … to buy therewith 400 duckats of rent yearly for
HOWELL, THOMAS (1588 - 1646), bishop brother of James Howell, author of the Epistolae, uncle of the James Howell who was in turn a Puritan minister and an Anglican pluralist, and who was godfather also to James Owen, the famous Nonconformist. As far as Wales is concerned the interest of the bishop arises solely from this family concatenation. Some indeed accused him of being somewhat of a Puritan, but the impression left by his many
HOWELL, THOMAS FRANCIS (1864 - 1953), businessman and barrister Born in London 22 October 1864 son of James Howell and Fanny (née Davies Logan), later of Cardiff. He was educated at Cardiff, and at St. John's College, Cambridge (1883-87), where he obtained degrees in classics and law. Music, however, was one of his greatest interests at an early age, and he studied the piano, cello, singing and elocution at the Guildhall School of Music with the view of
HOWELL, WILLIAM (1740 - 1822), Arian minister and Academy tutor Born at Wincanton, Somerset, in 1740, the son of the Rev. William Howell of Birmingham. He was taught by his father and by Jenkin Jenkins of Llanfyllin. He went to Warrington Academy, 1759-60, and then to Carmarthen Academy, 1760-4, where according to the Cofiant he was a fellow-student of David Davis (Dafis Castellhywel, 1745 - 1827) He spent some time on the continent where he was in charge of
HOWELL, WILLIAM - gweler HOWELL, GWILYM
HOWELLS, HOWELL (1750 - 1842), Methodist cleric

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