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HICKS, HENRY (1837 - 1899), physician and geologist bone caves of Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn, North Wales, and various glacial and post-glacial deposits. Much of his work was in controversial fields and he was a keen but considerate adversary. He married, 1864, Mary, daughter of Arthur Richardson, vicar of S. Dogmells, Pembrokeshire. He died 18 November 1899.
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
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal Cardiff Baptist College. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in history in 1945 and in 1948 added a Bachelor of Divinity degree. He was President of the Students' Union in 1945-46. The Baptist Union of Great Britain and the Dr Williams Trust in London awarded him scholarships which enabled him to register as a research student in Regent's Park College and St Catherine's in Oxford, and in 1950
HOBLEY, WILLIAM (1858 - 1933), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Gelli Ffrydau, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire, October 1858, son of William and Ann Mary Hobley. He was at two private schools in Caernarvon, kept by John Evans and by J. H. Bransby, and at fifteen entered Aberystwyth University College, where he remained for four years; he did not graduate. From Aberystwyth he went to the Bala Theological College; he was ordained in 1882 and became pastor
teulu HOLLAND Berw, so honoured about 1621-2. He succeeded in obtaining for the family a lease of the other moiety of the township of Ysgeifiog, with the mining rights appertaining thereto. He died 1643 or 1644, unmarried, and was succeeded by his nephew OWEN, a son of Owen (Sir Thomas's brother) and Mary, daughter of Michael Evans of Plas Llandyfrydog. He had married Jane, daughter of Pearce Lloyd of Llugwy, and by a
teulu HOLLAND descendants of the eldest son, EDWARD HOLLAND, continue the main line, which indeed more than once lacked male heirs, yet was perpetuated when a son or grandson of an heiress assumed the Holland surname. In the end, by a marriage of 1738, the property came into the hands of the Williams es of Pwll-y-crochan (today, ' Colwyn Bay'), and afterwards (1821), in like manner, into those of a Scottish family named
HOLLAND, ROBERT (1556/7 - 1622?), cleric, author, and translator Weston Colville; he was also schoolmaster at Dullingham, near Newmarket. His preferments in Wales are not easy to date with confidence (parish records are lacking), but both Stephen Hughes (in 1677) and Moses Williams make him parson of Llanddowror - this, presumably, would be before 1595. Again, though the list of Pembrokeshire parsons in West Wales Records contains not a single reference to Holland
teulu HOMFRAY, iron-masters Penydarren , but gave up his share of the management to his brother, Samuel, who thus became the sole managing director. Jeremiah Homfray married (1787) Mary, daughter of John Richards of Llandaff, and for many years resided at Llandaff House. After a few years, he complained of his brother's arbitrary management. This led to a quarrel between the brothers (1796) and to legal action. About the same time Jeremiah
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure advocacy of a Welsh Assembly during 1978-79. Powys recorded the highest 'No' vote of all the Welsh counties in the Referendum of 1 March 1979, and in the general election which ensued in May, when the Liberal vote slumped badly, the seemingly impregnable 'man for Montgomeryshire' unexpectedly lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Delwyn Williams by a margin of 1593 votes. A ninety-nine year Liberal
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 and Mary Davies, Bonymaen, Llansamlet, and he was a collier himself for some time. He had received his early education in the school at Cockett, but when he decided to become a minister, he went for further education to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, kept by ' Watcyn Wyn ' (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and then to the Academy at Newcastle Emlyn, kept by John Phillips, son of the famous Evan Phillips. From
HOWELL, DAVID (Llawdden; 1831 - 1903), dean Bryncwtyn, near Pen-coed, and his son David helped him on the farm. David Howell attracted the attention of John Griffiths (1820 - 1897), then rector of S. Mary Hill, who persuaded him to go to the 'Eagle School,' Cowbridge. He then went to a tutorial school at Merthyr from which he proceeded to the Llandaff church training college at Abergavenny. He was ordained deacon in 1855 by the bishop of Llandaff

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