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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
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher composition. He came to general notice and was acknowledged as a very promising composer in 1954 when his Concerto for clarinet (op.3) was performed at the Cheltenham Music Festival by the celebrated clarinettist Gervase de Peyer and the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli. Although this neo-classical work has remained in the repertoire, Hoddinott subsequently developed a more intricate and personal style
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier Julian Hodge was born on 15 October 1904 in Camberwell, London, the second of seven children of Alfred Hodge, an English plumber and electrician, and his wife Jane Emily (née Simcock, d. 1946) from a middle-class family of lawyers and journalists with connections to Ireland. He had an elder brother Donald, and younger siblings Leonard, Eileen, John, Gerard, and Teresa. The family moved to Wales
HODGES, JOHN (1700? - 1777), cleric An entry in Cardiff MS. 4877 states that John Hodges, later rector of Wenvoe, Glamorganshire, was born in 1700. However, the following entry in Alumni Oxonienses probably relates to him: 'Hodges, John s. Thomas, of Abbey, co. Monmouth, pleb. Jesus Coll., matric. 6 April 1720, aged 18; B.A. 1723, M.A. 1726.' If this identification is correct, his date of birth must be placed in 1701 or 1702. He
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer admiration of John Gibson, a prominent supporter of women's rights and editor and owner of the Cambrian News. Subsequent historians of Wales have also seen her as 'one of the leading feminist pioneers of Victorian Wales' (Evans, p.100). After a letter of support to the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales in 1886, Hoggan appears to have played no further role in Wales's education scene
teulu HOLLAND affection. Hollands of Conway (A.) The clan whose origins are clearer includes (1) the Hollands of Conway. According to the chief authority on the Hollands, Bernard Holland, in his book The Hollands of Lancashire (see also A. S. Vaughan Thomas in the composite volume Hugh Holland, and his appendices), this clan derives from the noble family of Matthew de Holland (temp. king John) of Upholland, Lancashire
teulu HOLLAND Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian Born at Haverfordwest 16 January 1711, son of Nicholas Holland, of the Hollands of Walwyn's Castle - see Holland families (2); Nicholas Holland was great-great-grandson of Robert Holland. According to Moravian tradition, William Holland was at Haverfordwest grammar school at the same time as bishop John Gambold; he does not seem to have been Welsh -speaking. Before 1732 he was in London, and had
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, JOHN (1883 - 1969), teacher, scholar Born in 1883 at Nant, a farmhouse in the Hiraethog area of Denbigh, son of Thomas Hooson and his wife Marged. The family moved to Maelor, Saron and then to Colomendy and Graig, near Denbigh. John Hooson was educated at Prion school and at the county school, Denbigh. He started to work on the farm but suffered from ill health. He returned to school and in 1903 won a scholarship to the University
HOPKIN, LEWIS (c. 1708 - 1771), poet -in-law, John Miles, published a collection of his poetical works under the title of Y Fel Gafod. He is not a great poet, but his work shows the results of the attempts which he had made to study the language and to master cynghanedd and the 'twenty-four metres.' He, undoubtedly, was the most gifted of those persons who were associated with that literary revival, and the one who exerted the greatest
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