Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1807? - 1877), principal of Jesus College, Oxford holiday at the principal's lodgings at Jesus. In 1857, he was elected principal of the college - a college which had long been stagnating and was now in the throes of the reforms demanded by the Royal Commission of 1852. He was an honorary canon of Bangor from 1857 until his death. His management of the college has been described as ' wise and prudent '; a characteristic incident was his offer of an
WILLIAMS, CYRIL GLYNDWR (1921 - 2004), theologian Testament gifts within the contemporary church. By now very much a liberal in his doctrinal views - he had come to interpret both Christ's resurrection and his Virgin Birth as symbolic rather than actual truths - he nevertheless continued to value the concept of Christian mission overseas. During his retirement years he was increasingly captivated by the life and labours of Timothy Richard, the nineteenth
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709 - 1784), Independent minister ). The church at Watford waned under the strain. Whether David Williams was ever a real Calvinist is open to question (it should be noted that Charles Wesley preached in his chapel in 1740 and 1741), but in any event, he now began (like other early Independent supporters of Methodism) to veer towards Arminianism and Arianism, and fell out even more with his old friends Edmund Jones and Philip David
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer Street, Chelsea. He was now married, his wife's Christian name being Mary Emilia. On 9 December 1774, a daughter, Emilia, was born to them, and on 20 December the mother died. The child was christened on 12 February 1775, but nothing further is heard of her and she may have died in infancy. Williams abandoned the school on his wife's death. He had, however, already written his Treatise on Education
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary was now that he began to explain the doctrines of bardism and to hold druidical gorseddau on Primrose Hill. He came in contact with men who sympathised with the French Revolution and also with Unitarian leaders. He returned to Trefflemin in 1795, and, in 1796, he was given work under the Board of Agriculture - to describe the condition of the land and of farms in Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire. He
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), physicist lecturer and Leverhume fellow at the physics department, University of Liverpool in 1936 under the head of department James Chadwick. By now Williams's atomic physics research was recognised internationally and his presence was a significant asset raising the department's research profile. Additionally, Chadwick had similar research interests having received a Nobel prize for discovering the neutron (the
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar Llansilin, together with many other rare books from the 17th and 18th centuries. G.J. Williams's library and papers, together with his shelves, cupboards and desk are now in the National Library. A list of his publications can be found in Agweddau ar hanes dysg Gymraeg, ed. Aneirin Lewis, Cardiff, 1969, 279-86.
WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter raised had been built by the powerful Guest family and he was educated at Cyfarthfa Castle Grammar School, formerly the palatial home of the mighty Crawshay family. His left-wing parents plied him with books and magazines, and nurtured him in the radical working-class tradition of a community that was now riddled with poverty and unemployment. He attended Gwernllwyn Independent Chapel where members
WILLIAMS, HUW OWEN (Huw Menai; 1886 - 1961), poet to work in the pits in Gilfach Goch, Glamorganshire., but did not move there permanently until he was 18, when he and his mother moved to Merthyr Vale to join his father. There he began to organise and address political meetings, and to write political articles for the Social Democrat, the Social Review and Justice. He soon lost his job because of his political activities but as he was now married
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith usual practice of confusing successive John Williamses of this family, and therefore altogether skips the John Williams now under discussion. Tradition associates John Williams with Hafod Lwyfog in Beddgelert parish (a house which certainly belonged to the Cesail Gyfarch clan), and it is certain that in 1610 he gave the church at Beddgelert a silver chalice and paten-cover (E. A. Jones, Church Plate
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1806 - 1856), Baptist minister and author ), Rhos and Brymbo (1836-41), Newtown (1841-53), Rhos, and Penycae (1853-6). In some of these places he kept a school for the training of candidates for the ministry. He was influenced by the Campbellite movement. He translated Alexander Campbell's dissertation on forgiveness, and in 1839 began to translate the New Testament under the title Yr Oraclau Bywiol, 1842. It is now considered that the Oraclau
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author Patagonian paintings and other gifts, Kyffin is considered one of the main patrons of the National Library. By now the Library holds 700 colour slides, photographs taken by Kyffin in Patagonia, 250 oil paintings (including the Patagonian collection) and 1,456 creative works on paper. This is the largest collection in the world of Kyffin's work. During his lifetime he also presented 400 of his own paintings

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