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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
teulu HERBERT Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, The pre-eminence of the Herberts in Mid Wales dates from the settlement at Montgomery early in Henry VIII's reign, of the newly-knighted Sir RICHARD HERBERT (1468 - 1539), protagonist of the Tudor settlement in Mid Wales, son of the Yorkist Sir Richard of Coldbrook (executed with his brother William, 1st earl of Pembroke after the Lancastrian victory at Edgecote, 1469), and nephew of Sir Rhys ap
teulu HERBERT (earls of POWIS), same year to the Dutch earl of Rochford. Herbert had exercised a moderating influence on the king and the persecuted leaders of Nonconformity in Montgomeryshire (e.g. Richard Davies, the Quaker, and Hugh Owen of Bronyclydwr) experienced much kindness at this hands. Two of his daughters achieved fame - the fourth, lady LUCY THERESA HERBERT (1669 - 1744), abbess of the English Augustine nuns at Bruges
teulu HERBERT WILLIAM HERBERT, 1st earl of Pembroke of the second creation (c. 1501 - 1570) The eldest son of Sir Richard Herbert ('Ddu') of Ewyas, bastard of William Herbert (died 1469), earl of Pembroke of the first creation, his mother being the daughter of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea, Receiver of Glamorgan. After a wild youth, in the course of which he fought in France and won the favour of the French
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury Born 3 March 1583, at Eyton-on-Severn, son of Richard (died 1596 and Magdalen Herbert, of Montgomery. He entered University College, Oxford, in May 1596, married Mary Herbert in 1599, living at first in London but returning in 1605 to Montgomery where he was appointed magistrate and sheriff. In 1608 he made the first of many journeys to Europe which he describes so vividly in his Life, one of the
HERBERT, GEORGE (1593 - 1633), cleric and poet Born in London 3 April 1593, the fifth son of Richard (died 1596) and Magdalen Herbert (see under Herbert of Montgomery). His father dying in 1596, he was left in the care of his mother; she lived for a time with her mother, lady Newport, at Eyton, then moved to Oxford, and from there to London. George was in the hands of a tutor until he entered Westminster School in 1605. From there he
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state The second son of Matthew Herbert of Swansea and grandson of Sir George Herbert, the first known M.P. for Glamorgan and the son of Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas, illegitimate son of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (see Herbert, earls of Pembroke). He was admitted an honorary member of the College of Advocates (November 1573), joint commissioner of the Court of Admiralty with Dr. David Lewis
HERBERT, WILLIAM (1460 - 1491), earl of Pembroke, later earl of Huntingdon all Welsh rebels except Jasper Tudor. He served with the king in France, 1475, and was commissioned to arrest Walter ap Gwilym and others (October 1477). At the king's request he exchanged the earldom of Pembroke for that of Huntingdon (July 1479). In 1483 he was commissioned to raise troops in South Wales to suppress Buckingham's revolt against Richard III. He received an annuity of 400 marks
teulu HILL, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil RICHARD HILL I (died 1806), who had had experience in Anthony Bacon's iron-works (at Cyfarthfa and Hirwaun), became Bacon's trusted manager of the Plymouth iron-works. He was elected a burgess or freeman of Cardiff in 1784. He married Mary, the sister of Mrs. Bacon, and named his youngest son (born in 1784) Anthony, after Anthony Bacon. On the death of Anthony Bacon, as all the natural children
HOARE, Sir RICHARD COLT (1758 - 1838), 2nd baronet, historian and antiquary sometimes stayed at Fachddeiliog on the shores of Bala lake (see Richard Fenton, Tours in Wales, 1804-13, ed. J. Fisher for the Cambrian Arch. Assoc., in 1917). He examined antiquarian and 'romantic' sites and made scores of sketches, some of which are preserved in the National Library, as are some of his note books, e.g. NLW MS 5370C (a 'Sketch Book' for 1799) and two larger volumes in the Llangibby
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer Frances Hoggan was the first Welsh woman to qualify as a medical doctor and a leading figure in the campaign to improve girls' education in Wales in the early 1880s. Born as Frances Morgan in Brecon on 20 December 1843, she was the eldest of five children of Georgiana Catherina (née Philipps) and Richard Morgan, curate of St. John's Priory, Brecon. She grew up Aberafan and, following her father's
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927) Born at Brecon, 20 December 1843; her father was Richard Morgan, son of Robert Morgan of Henry's Mote, Pembrokeshire, who graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1830 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), and was at the time curate of S. John's, Brecon; her mother was a Philipps of Cwmgwili, Carmarthenshire. Morgan became vicar of Aberavon in 1845, but died in 1851. Elizabeth, educated on the continent

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