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HALL, BENJAMIN (1778 - 1817), industrialist political field in Wales in opposition to the landed interests.
HALL, BENJAMIN (Lord Llanover), (1802 - 1867), politician and reformer he left in 1821 without having taken a degree. Soon after, two events were to influence the course of his life. During a tour of England and Scotland in 1822 his visit to the New Lanark settlement founded by Robert Owen made him aware of the connection between the living conditions of the working classes and their mores, imbuing him with the reforming spirit which made him a successful Liberal
HALL, RICHARD (1817 - 1866), poet He lived most and perhaps all of his life at Brecon, where he kept a pharmacy. In 1850 he published A Tale of the Past and Other Poems, with a dedication to Eliza Cook. He was self-confessedly content with the lower slopes of that Parnassus whose peak he judged Eliza Cook to have scaled. He died 25 January 1866 and was buried in Llanspyddyd churchyard.
teulu HANMER Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, . William Owen of Brogyntyn, the patron of Huw Morys. Puritan sympathies are suggested by his commission to Robert Lloyd, vicar of Chirk, to translate into Welsh The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven by Arthur Dent (died 1607), the strongly Puritan vicar of Shoebury, Essex (Llwybr Hyffordd, 1630, 'Epistol'). He was a correspondent of William Camden the antiquary. He maintained the connection with the parent
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) three weeks of formal schooling at the British School, Llanrwst, before going to work in the leadmines when he was nine. His father took an interest in writing poetry and he was a neighbour and friend of the poet-tailor Trebor Mai (Robert Williams, 1830 - 1877 and it was said that he made Isnant's first suit. However he died when Isnant was 11 so it is unlikely that he had any great influence on the
teulu HARLEY (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore . Edward I, who married Maud (Matilda), daughter of William (II) de Braose (see Braose) and widow of Roger Mortimer, 6th lord of Wigmore. Their daughter, Margaret, married Sir ROBERT DE HARLEY, sheriff of Herefordshire, in 1302, who held of the Mortimers in Herefordshire and Shropshire. In fact, this connection with the Mortimers was the foundation of the Harley influence in the later shire of Radnor
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner ten years old, and then as a boarder at Haverfordwest grammar school until he was eighteen. It is not clear where he studied medicine - there are many conflicting accounts including suggestions that he had a practice in Harley Street, London, with his astrologer friend Robert Cross Smith (Raphael; 1795-1832), before returning to Caio to establish a practice when he was in his forties. However, his
HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary divers direct lynes to Brutus (London, 1604), The work was intended to show the fitness of James, as shown by his pedigree, to rule over all the countries of Great Britain. It was compiled at the request of Robert Holland, another Pembrokeshire clergyman, who supplied an introductory letter addressed to the king. Another book entitled The Well-sprynge of True Nobility is also attributed to George Owen
HARTMANN, EDWARD GEORGE (1912 - 1995), historian and promoter of Welsh-American relations sort of a pioneer in the field among many others...' Hartmann was active in maintaining Welsh-American links, noting in his Americans from Wales how he took pride in Welsh achievements in the United States. That pride in his Welsh ancestry led him to become a founding member of the National Welsh-American Foundation, whose Heritage Medal he was awarded in 1991. His services to Welsh-American
HARTSHORN, VERNON (1872 - 1931), Labour leader, M.P., and Cabinet Minister He was born at Pont-y-waun, Monmouthshire, was brought up among the Primitive Methodists, and started work as a miner when a young boy. For a time he was clerk at Cardiff in one of the docks offices; but he returned to the coal-field, finding work at Risca. His fellow-workmen early saw in him the makings of a leader; he was chosen as checkweighman to begin with, and in 1905 was appointed chief
teulu HERBERT Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, VI's reign (1548) and at the head of 500 men of Mid Wales against the French under Mary (1557), and receiving from him the lordship of Cherbury (1553). Through the Pembroke connection he gained the patronage of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester (uncle of Pembroke's wife), became keeper of Holt castle and the lordship of Bromfield and Yale in Denbighshire (1570), and, after the purchase of the lordship
teulu HERBERT (earls of POWIS), enlarged Powis castle. He died 17 January 1848, under tragic circumstances, having been accidentally shot by his son, the Hon. Robert Charles Herbert, and was buried at Welshpool. His wife was Lucy (1793 - 1875), third daughter of James, 3rd duke of Montrose. His eldest son EDWARD JAMES (1818 - 1891) viscount Clive from 1839-48, succeeded him. Born 5 November 1818, he also was educated at Eton and S

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