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Hughes, T. Rowland

(1903–1949), novelist and poet from Llanberis, Caernarvonshire.

Humphreys Owen, A. C.

Liberal MP for Montgomery. Barrister. First Chairman of the Central Welsh Board.

Hundredal Juries

Each county was divided into a number of units, each called a hundred (originally this probably meant a hundred families), and each hundred held its own court for minor offences. Juries played an important part in these courts.

Hundreds

See Hundredal Juries.

Hunger March

One of the most popular forms of protest against unemployment and its consequent privations. The first from south Wales was in 1927 and they continued in the 1930s, mainly to London.

Husbandmen

Ranked on the social scale below yeomen. Normally rented land up to perhaps 30 acres.

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