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HARRIES, EVAN (1786 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Ty'n-y-llan, Llan-wrtyd, Brecknock, 7 March 1786, son of Henry and Anne Harries and younger brother of William Harries of Trevecka. He married 1808, Maria, daughter of the Rev. Dafydd Parry of Llanwrtyd. In 1812, having been converted under the ministry of Ebenezer Richard, he joined the church at Pontrhyd-y-bere and began to preach in 1814. In 1818 he went to live at Brecon where he set
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint ; it may be noted too that Joseph Harris was one of the promoters of the pioneer Brecknockshire Agricultural Society in 1755. There are two references to him in the Morris Letters (i, 183, ii, 46 - the latter noting a guinea given by him to Goronwy Owen); another letter by Richard Morris (Y Cymmrodor, xlix, 963) refers to Harris's part in the standardization of weights and measures; and he was a
HARRISON, RICHARD (1743 - 1830), Wesleyan Methodist local preacher
HEMP, WILFRID JAMES (1882 - 1962), archaeologist served on a number of committees in Wales. He was awarded an honorary M.A. degree by the University of Wales in 1932. He was an authority on Welsh heraldry and one of that small band of archaeologists who set the study of prehistory in Wales on a sound footing during the first half of the twentieth century. He married Dulcia, daughter of Richard Assheton, in 1934, and in 1939 settled in Cricieth, where
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

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