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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.
HARRIES, EVAN (1786 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Ty'n-y-llan, Llan-wrtyd, Brecknock, 7 March 1786, son of Henry and Anne Harries and younger brother of William Harries of Trevecka. He married 1808, Maria, daughter of the Rev. Dafydd Parry of Llanwrtyd. In 1812, having been converted under the ministry of Ebenezer Richard, he joined the church at Pontrhyd-y-bere and began to preach in 1814. In 1818 he went to live at Brecon where he set
HARRIES, JOHN (1722 - 1788) Ambleston, early Methodist exhorter parish. On the death of Howel Davies (1770), Harries (who was a well-to-do farmer) superintended the whole Methodist work in the county until the arrival of Nathaniel Rowland; according to William Gambold, 'he was one of the strictest and most approved of men, universally beloved'; and Rowland Hill thought very highly of him. He strove hard to stem the Moravian tide in Pembrokeshire: we find him in
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer refusal was repeated more than once subsequently - and for the same reason). He consulted Griffith Jones who besought him without success to be more moderate. In 1737 he came into contact with Daniel Rowland and the two began to work together. Among their earliest converts were Howel Davies and William Williams of Pantycelyn. In 1742 these formed themselves and their adherent societies into an
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint so it was that Samuel Hughes, 'of Tregunter,' became sheriff of his county in 1790. They had two daughers, AMELIA SOPHIA who died in 1794, and ELIZA ANNE HUGHES, who married firstly Roderick Gwynne, Buckland. He died 20 March 1808, and she married William Alexander Madocks, 2 April 1818.
HARRIS, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1956), priest, Professor of Welsh, St. David's College, Lampeter
HARRY, WILLIAM - gweler HARRI, WILLIAM
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor Born 1754, the second son of James Hassall of Cardigan (1718-1787) and Martha Rose of Stourbridge (died 1795), resided at Eastwood near Narberth. He married Dorothy Bullfinch (died 1845) and had three children, the Rev. William Hassall of Llyswen (1788-1849), Oriana Hassall (1790-1809) and George Hassall (born and died 1792). An agricultural pioneer and colourful figure, he achieved some

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