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HAINES, WILLIAM (1853 - 1922), local historian and bibliographer
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician on coal. He was awarded honorary LL.D. degrees by the University of Birmingham in 1945 (of which Anthony Eden was chancellor) and the University of Wales in 1946. Always a faithful member of the Church in Wales he was elected a member of its Representative Body. Lord Hall was twice married: (1) to Margaret, died of William Jones of Ynysybwl, 12 October 1910. She died 24 July 1941. There were two
HALL, WILLIAM ANDERSON (born c. 1820), carpenter, fugitive from slavery, author William Anderson Hall was an enslaved labourer in the USA who eventually gained his freedom and wrote an account of his life and escape which was published in Cardiff in 1862. Everything we know about him comes from that account. Born in Bedford County, Tennessee, around 1820, William was the son of an enslaved African mother (not named in the text) and a father he described as an 'Englishman', a
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter Pete Ham was born in Swansea on 27 April 1947. He was the youngest child of William Ham (1908-1985), a ship's painter in Swansea docks, and his wife Catherine (née Tanner, 1912-1976), who had worked as a plate opener in the tinplate works. Their first son, William (b. 1935) did not survive infancy. Pete grew up in Gwent Gardens, at the foot of the Townhill estate, with an older brother, John
HAMILTON, Sir WILLIAM (1703 - 1803), co-founder of Milford Haven town - gweler GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS
teulu HANBURY, industrialists rolling iron plates by means of cylinders and introduced the art of tinning into England.' In these improvements, his agent Thomas Cooke, of Stourbridge, was the inventor of the rolling mill; William Payne is accredited with the improvements in the production of a more malleable kind of iron; while Edward Allgood's name (see Allgood) is associated with improvements in wire-drawing and in the tinning of
teulu HANMER Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, .1388) became a justice of the king's bench in 1383 and was knighted in 1387. He married Agnes (or Angharad), daughter of Llywelyn Ddu ap Gruffydd ap Iorwerth, and the Welsh tone of the family appears in the support they gave to Owain Glyn Dwr, who married Sir David's daughter Margaret. Her brothers GRIFFITH (who married into the Tudor family of Penmynydd) and PHILIP joined in proclaiming him prince
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) young boy. Gwilym Cowlyd (William John Roberts had only recently set up Gorsedd Geirionydd and a series of eisteddfodau on the banks of Llyn Geirionydd and it is against this background that the boy took seriously to learning the cynganeddion, mastering the handbook Yr Ysgol Farddol by Dafydd Morganwg (David Watkin Jones, and to competing in eisteddfodau. After giving up work at Nant, he worked for 15
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
HARRI EVAN WILLIAM - gweler EVANS, HENRY
HARRI, WILLIAM (Gwilym Garw-dyle; 1763 - 1844), poet
HARRI, EDWARD (1752? - 1837), poet and weaver church books - ' July 22, 1827, Edward Harri, weaver, and his wife have been restored and partook of the Lord's Supper.' He composed several poems, but only two appear to have survived: ' Galargan ar ol ei wraig ' and ' Cynghorion idd ei ŵyr.' He was a brother of William Harri, of Garw-dyle, Penderyn.

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577 - 588 of 1882 for "William Glyn"