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HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire when he received an honorary Doctorate in Law. He was the most important architect in the battle to uphold the unity and continuance of the University of Wales in the crisis of 1964. His ambition by the 1950s was to follow W. G. Cove as the Labour MP for Aberavon. He was already on the Parliamentary Panel of the NUR, and when the opportunity came in 1957 he won 39 nominations compared with 3 for the
HILLS-JOHNES, Sir JAMES (1833 - 1919), general Welch Regiment, was J.P. and D.L. for Carmarthenshire, served as high sheriff of that county, 1886, and was made an honorary freeman of the town of Carmarthen in 1910. He was treasurer of Aberystwyth University College, 1898-1919, and was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D. by the University of Wales in 1917. He died 3 January 1919.
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher composition. He came to general notice and was acknowledged as a very promising composer in 1954 when his Concerto for clarinet (op.3) was performed at the Cheltenham Music Festival by the celebrated clarinettist Gervase de Peyer and the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli. Although this neo-classical work has remained in the repertoire, Hoddinott subsequently developed a more intricate and personal style
teulu HOLLAND were congeners of the Conway Hollands. But Bernard Holland will allow at best only an illegitimate connection between the two. It seems that we are on firm ground only when we reach a certain ROGER (or HOESGYN) HOLLAND, whatever may have brought him into Wales. He had a son, ROBIN HOLLAND, who was a partisan of Owain Glyn Dŵr. This Robin had two sons who concern us: HOWEL HOLLAND of (3) PENNANT (i.e
teulu HOLLAND Berw, (Carreglwyd Deeds, i, 1750, 2109, 2113). He also took an active part in the public life of the island, being returned as M.P. for Anglesey in November 1584, and serving as sheriff in 1591 and 1599. He died 1 February 1600/01. His eldest son Rowland having died without issue, he was succeeded by his second son THOMAS. He is probably the ' Thomas Holland, of co. Anglesea, gent., S. Edmund Hall, matric. 3
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator known only from the reprint by Stephen Hughes at the end of his edition of Canwyll y Cymru, 1681; (3) a translation of the Exposition of the Lord's Prayer by William Perkins (see in D.N.B.), entered (with no title) at Stationers Hall 25 June 1599 - again no copy is known earlier than Stephen Hughes's revised reissue (1677) under the title Agoriad byrr ar Weddi'r Arglwydd, in his Cyfarwydd-deb i'r
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
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist born 3 November 1876, in Swansea, son of Joshua George, and Catherine (née Bowen) Howard. His father claimed to be a direct descendant of John Howard, the prison reformer. He lost his parents when a child. For some time he was brought up in his mother's family and later he was put into the Cottage Homes at Cockett near Swansea. As an adolescent, he was taken in by a collier and his wife, Thomas
HOWELL, GWILYM (1705 - 1775), almanac-maker and poet He was born in the parish of Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, but spent the greater part of his life in the parish of Llanidloes where, for many years, he was the steward of the Berth-lwyd estate. In 1762-3 he was mayor of Llanidloes. He was not only a poet himself but collected the works of other poets, in particular those of Huw Morys. Iolo Morgannwg says that when Gwallter Mechain was preparing his
HOWELL, JAMES (1594? - 1666), author Fleet, where he remained a prisoner till 1651. In 1661 he was made historiographer royal as a reward for his support of Charles I. He was buried in the Temple church 3 November 1666. A monument erected to him was badly damaged during an air raid on May 10/11 1941, but most of the inscription on the tablet on the east wall is still legible. Howell was acquainted with such eminent writers and thinkers
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician Democratic Party after 1983, and his doubts were confirmed again at the 1987 general election when only twenty-two Alliance candidates entered the House of Commons. Following this election, David Steel called for a merger of the two parties, which was achieved on 3 March 1985. Howells accepted these changes and supported Alan Beith, a Welsh speaker, as the leader of the new party. However, he worked well
HUGHES, ALFRED WILLIAM (1861 - 1900), surgeon and professor superintendent. While on his way home he developed enteric fever; he died 3 November 1900 and was buried at Corris. A Conservative in politics he unsuccessfully contested one of the Caernarvonshire divisions in the Unionist interest.

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