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697 - 708 of 1940 for "david lloyd george"

697 - 708 of 1940 for "david lloyd george"

  • HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster widely. He married Annie Evans, daughter of E.J. Evans, former minister of Walton Park Welsh Presbyterian church, Liverpool, but they had no children. He won the friendship of some of the leaders of the nation and D. Lloyd George thought highly of his opinion. R.T. Jenkins 'enjoyed a quarter century of pure friendship' with him. He was one of the pioneers of the detective novel in Welsh and had the
  • HUMPHREYS, GEORGE (1747? - 1813), sexton, poet George Humphreys (NLW MS 6729B), copies of his poems.
  • HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher Born at Caernarvon, 17 September 1817, son of David Humphreys, hatter, a native of Tre'r Ddôl, Cardiganshire. Apprenticed when he was 12 years old with Peter Evans, printer, Castle Street, Caernarvon, Hugh Humphreys began business as a printer on his own account at Tan-y-bont in Caernarvon, in 1837. He had courage and enterprise, and the small printing business soon developed into a large concern
  • HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist . Much against his inclination he was translated to Hereford in November 1701; there he died on 20 November 1712. In 1681, Humphreys married Elizabeth, daughter of bishop Robert Morgan of Henblas, Anglesey, a family of which bishop William Lloyd, one of the 'Seven Bishops,' was a distinguished member. Bishop Humphreys's episcopate was one of marked activity, and even after his translation to Hereford
  • HUW LLIFON (fl. c. 1570-1607), poet and sexton of Llanefydd, Denbighshire. Some of his work remains in manuscripts and this includes religious englynion, a cywydd to the Holly Tree at Meifod, another begging a gown for the poet from David Holland of Kinmel, and an elegy upon the death in 1607/8 of Ffowc ap Rhobert of Meiriadog, Denbighshire. It is evident that he lived to a fairly great age; references to this are found in the last two of
  • HUW LLŶN (fl. c. 1552-1594), poet there is no proof that they were the same person. Some of Huw Llŷn's poetry remains, and this includes poems to Walter Devereux (earl of Essex), Henry Rowland (bishop of Bangor), Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward, and to the South Walians Thomas Vaughan (Pembrey), Gruffudd Dwnn (Ystrad Merthyr), William and George Owen (Henllys), and John Lloyd (Cilgwyn). A bardic controversy occurred between him and Siôn
  • HUW MACHNO (fl. 1585-1637), poet Son of Owen ap Ieuan ap Siôn of Penmachno, Caernarfonshire, descended from Dafydd Goch of Penmachno, an illegitimate son of David, prince of Wales. His mother was Margaret, daughter of Robert ap Rhys ap Hywel. The date of his birth is not known, but he is said to have died in 1637, and a gravestone inscribed ' H.M. obiit 1637,' in Penmachno churchyard, is believed to be his. He appears to have
  • HUW PENNANT Syr (fl. second half of the 15th century), cleric, poet, and antiquary Son of David Pennant of Bychton near Holywell, Flintshire, and brother of Thomas Pennant, abbot of Basingwerk. Some of his poems, all vaticinatory, exist in manuscript. Peniarth MS 182, written by 'Syr' Huw himself c. 1514, includes, among other items, genealogies, poetry, and his Welsh translation of the Latin text of a life of S. Ursula.
  • HUW, THOMAS (fl. c. 1574-1606), poet a native apparently of North Wales. Some examples of his work, in strict metres, are preserved in manuscript, including poems of praise to Harri Wyn of Anglesey and Siôn Wyn Amhorys (Brogyntyn MS. 6 (157b); Llanstephan MS 11 (21), an elegy to Richard Lloyd of Llannerch Fawr in Llŷn (Llanstephan MS 123 (114)), a poem seeking reconciliation with youth (NLW MS 783B (128)), another in reply to a poem
  • HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister grammar school and later to the Bala Independent College, 1874. In 1877 he was admitted to Yale University, U.S.A., where, in 1880, he graduated B.D. On his return to Wales he received a call to Beulah and Bryn-mair churches, Cardiganshire, where he was ordained in 1882. He soon came into the public eye as a zealous temperance reformer and, with his neighbour David Adams of Hawen, initiated a movement
  • IEUAN ap IEUAN ap MADOG (fl. 1547-1587), scribe Chevalier errant (printed at Antwerp, 1557) was first published in 1581, the Welsh version must be placed later. Other papers by Ieuan ap Ieuan were at one time sewn in the binding of this manuscript. They were taken out during the last century, and are preserved at the National Library (NLW MS 280D and Lloyd Verney Document 20). They include a Llangynwyd assessment of 1584, copies of prayers, 'Curig's
  • IEUAN LLWYD SIEFFRAI (fl. c. 1599-1619), poet Born in 1575, son and heir of Sieffrai ab Ieuan Llwyd, Dyffryn Ereithlyn, Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire, of the Lloyd family of Hafod Unnos. On 12 July 1591, at Llandrillo church, Meironnydd, when he was 16 years old and she only 11, he married Margred, daughter and sole heiress of Morus ap Siôn ab Elis of Palau. They had ten daughters and two sons, some born at Palau and others at Dyffryn. The