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HARDING, Sir JOHN DORNEY (1809 - 1868), Queen's Advocate
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
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer His father, who came from Llangadock, Carmarthenshire, to Talgarth, Brecknock, c. 1700, is called 'Howell Powell alias Harris' in the Talgarth parish register; he married Susanna Powell of Trefeca-fach in 1702. Their eldest son, Joseph Harris and another son, Thomas also made names for themselves. Howel, their youngest son, was born 23 January 1714 and was educated at Llwyn-llwyd. From 1732 to
HARRIS, JOHN RYLAND (Ieuan Ddu; 1802 - 1823), printer and author Born 12 December 1802 at Swansea, son of Joseph Harris (1773 - 1825), Gomer. He was taught the art of printing by D. Jenkin and, when the latter failed, Gomer secured his business for his son. From 1816 on it was Ieuan who did all the composing while his father corrected the proofs after school hours. He was given private coaching in the classics from about 1822 and also attended the Hamsworth
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint Treatise upon Optics (posthumous, 1775). Joseph Harris was author of several anonymous works on astronomy and mathematics and invented the 'New Azimuth Compass' and 'Forestaff'. Government ministers were often advised by him (unbeknown to many because of his shyness) and he received a pension of £300 per annum from the king from 1753. To a great extent he was responsible for standardising the U.K.'s
HARRIS, JOSEPH (Gomer; 1773 - 1825), Baptist minister, and man of letters
HARRIS, THOMAS (1705 - 1782) Second son of Howel and Susannah Harris of Trevecka, and brother of Howel and Joseph Harris. Christened at Talgarth 6 January 1705. He went to Bath in 1728, and in 1729 to London, at first as a tailor with his uncle Solomon Powell and afterwards working on his own. He spent some forty years in London, and after initial misadventures made a large fortune out of army contracts. In 1768 he was
HARRY, JOSEPH (1863 - 1950), schoolmaster and Independent minister
HARTLAND, EDWIN SIDNEY (1848 - 1927), one of the founders of the modern science of folklore Born at Islington, son of Edwin Joseph Hartland, a Congregational minister, and his wife Anne (née Corden Hulls). No particulars of his education are recorded. On 13 August 1873, he married Mary Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Morgan Rice Morgan, vicar of Llansamlet, Glamorganshire. Hartland came from Bristol to Swansea, and practised as a solicitor there from 1871 to 1890; in the latter year he
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor , Greville, and the Foleys, whilst Sir Thomas Picton condescended to fight a duel with him over a quarrel which originated in a ball-room. Charles and his older brother Thomas (1750-1813) have been called 'two of the best-known agriculturists in Wales' of the time, pioneering land improvement measures, such as draining wetlands, but both also acted as Commissioners of Enclosures for Pembrokeshire
HAVARD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1889 - 1956), bishop Zealand in 1919, and he gained his rugby blue whilst at Oxford. He married in 1922 Florence Aimée Holmes, daughter of Joseph Holmes, Pen-y-fái, Llanelli, and they had 2 sons and 2 daughters.
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician

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