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HARTMANN, EDWARD GEORGE (1912 - 1995), historian and promoter of Welsh-American relations Edward George Hartmann was born on 3 May 1912 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of Louis Hartmann (1877-1954) and his wife Catherine (née Jones-Davies, 1877-1940). Catherine was three years old when her family emigrated to the United States. Her father, Edward R. Jones, came from Penhernwenfach, near Llanwrtyd Wells, in Breconshire. Edward Hartmann recalled that Catherine's mother, Jane
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author illustrator in black and white, coupled with her early success with a lyric in English at the Port Talbot national eisteddfod of 1932, where W.H. Davies was the adjudicator, prompted her to reject a career as an art teacher and to take up one as a freelance journalist. From 1936 her poems and stories, illustrated with scraper-board drawings, appeared in The Western Mail and other newspapers and journals. On
HAYWARD, ISAAC JAMES (1884 - 1976), miner, trade unionist and local politician Isaac Hayward was born on 17 November 1884 in a two-bedroomed terraced house in King Street, Blaenafon, Monmouthshire, the third of five children to survive out of eight born to Thomas Hayward (1848-1925), engine fitter, and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née French, 1848-1925). He had two brothers and two sisters: Thomas, Elizabeth, Alice Louisa, and William Frederick. Isaac was raised a Baptist and
HENRY, PHILIP (1631 - 1696), Presbyterian minister and diarist larger translation in four volumes was published at Swansea, 1828-35. Of less ambitious works of his, several were translated into Welsh, some by James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi, 1648 - 1722). A rich collection of the various editions of Henry's works is lodged in the Salesbury library at Cardiff University College. He had been a student at Nonconformist Academies, and had entered Gray's Inn in 1685. It was
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), Grey in 1587 (see Powis, Grey, lords of). He appears to have had Catholic leanings, and his wife and children were returned as recusants in 1594 (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1945, 122). His son WILLIAM HERBERT (1573 - 1656) Politics, Government and Political Movements by Mary, daughter of Thomas Stanley, master of the Mint, was Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire
teulu HERBERT (perhaps initiated) Northumberland's plot for crowning lady Jane Grey (July 1553) but drew back in time, helped to proclaim Mary, and so won her complete confidence and retained his ascendancy, resigning only his presidency at Ludlow. He favoured the Spanish match, led the forces which put down Wyatt's rebellion (1554), went on diplomatic missions to France and the Netherlands (1555), was made governor
HERBERT, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Evangelical cleric August 1812, and with it held the curacy of Llanrhystud (1814) and the perpetual curacy of Rhyd-y-briw, Brecknock (1834). He married Mary Price of Felindre Uchaf, Llanfihangel Ystrad, and by her had five children: the eldest, William (1796 - 1893) followed him at Llansantffraed, where he was vicar from 1836-84, and the only daughter Mary, married David Parry (1794 - 1877), vicar of Llywel. David
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury Born 3 March 1583, at Eyton-on-Severn, son of Richard (died 1596 and Magdalen Herbert, of Montgomery. He entered University College, Oxford, in May 1596, married Mary Herbert in 1599, living at first in London but returning in 1605 to Montgomery where he was appointed magistrate and sheriff. In 1608 he made the first of many journeys to Europe which he describes so vividly in his Life, one of the
HERBERT, HENRY (1617 - 1656), Parliamentary soldier and statesman (matriculated 10 October 1634), he was elected to the vacancy in the county seat in the Long Parliament caused by the death of Sir Charles Williams of Llangibby. Most of his family were Royalists, but his marriage to Mary, daughter of John Rudyard, grocer, of London (cousin to the opposition leader Sir Benjamin Rudyard), and perhaps an itch for the Raglan lands that had belonged to his ancestors, made him a
HERBERT, WILLIAM (1460 - 1491), earl of Pembroke, later earl of Huntingdon Eldest legitimate son of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (died 1469). According to William of Worcester, he was betrothed to Mary Woodville, the queen's sister, and made lord Dunster (September 1466), becoming earl of Pembroke on his father's death, 1469. He entered 'without proof of age' into the offices previously held by his father, and was commissioned to receive into the king's allegiance
HERBERT, Sir WILLIAM (bu farw 1593), Irish planter and Welsh educational pioneer legislation of a puritanical character, and that of 1586, where his speech against Mary, Queen of Scots - the first speech on record by a Welsh member - resulted in his membership of a deputation to Elizabeth about her. Next year he took up as ' undertaker ' over 13,000 acres of forfeited Fitzgerald lands in Munster, paying a Crown rental of c. £200 a year and living (1586-7) at Castle Island, co. Kerry. He

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