Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary assisted Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) at a later period when the latter was preparing his report on the state of agriculture in Wales. He was appointed as one of the editors of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, and, in 1799, he journeyed through North Wales to collect the materials. By this time he had become a Unitarian and he was the leading spirit when a Unitarian Association was formed in South
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher Heytesbury, and father of C. J. Blasius Williams, the expert on pulmonary diseases), and WILLIAM, rector of Llanstinan. He went to London and became interested in the Welsh movements in the city. In 1789 he became a member of the Gwyneddigion Society, but he does not appear to have held any of its offices. He was a trustee of the Welsh Charity School, and his name appears regularly in its minute books from
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1719 - 1748), Congregational minister and revivalist Born 6 January 1719 at Abercrave, Brecknock - a brother to William Evans (1716 - 1770), Cwmllynfell. He came from a religious family. It is probable that he was at Joseph Simmons's school at Swansea or Neath. In the bitter controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism at Cwmllynfell he joined the party of Howel Harris and Daniel Rowland. He was a true revivalist both by nature and by conviction
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1706 - ?), harpist Antient British Music, 1742. He settled in London as teacher of the harp and obtained a post as harpist in a church; from references made to him by William Morris it would appear that he played the organ also. In the (Welsh) Book of Common Prayer, edited by Richard Morris (1770), are twenty-four psalm-tunes, the first printed tunes made available for use by Welsh people. Evan Williams performed a
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1816? - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and artist , including Eben Fardd, David Jones, (Treborth), and Edward Morgan (Dyffryn), but his best work was done in landscape, especially in his pictures of mountain and lake scenery. Between October 1848 and October 1849 he wrote articles on painters and painting to the Traethodydd. He died 2 October 1878, aged 62, and was buried at Caeathro, near Caernarvon. [See article on Prichard, John William.]
WILLIAMS, FOULK ROBERT (Eos Llyfnwy; 1774 - 1870), musician Born at Hendreforion-bach, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, (and christened 6 October 1774), the son of Robert William, weaver, and Lowry his wife. Owing to his gift as a singer he came to be called ' Ffowc bach y canwr '; later he was known as Foulk Roberts. When he was 17 he received music lessons for a period of three months from John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), these lessons being paid for by some
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler voluntarily or spurred on by the Justice we cannot tell. Margaret related how she had gone to inform Pennant's butler, William Cooper, of the event before going on to Downing to tell the story to Pennant himself. When word came from the butler's maid, Elizabeth Jones, that she had found a hat believed to be Frances Williams's in the nearby field of Dole Bychton, Pennant sent Cooper in pursuit of the
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian turned down as unfit for military service when he presented himself for a medical at Pontypridd. In June 1941 he was awarded a First Class Honours degree, which gave him confidence to embark on an MA research project on the life of the sixteenth-century bishop Richard Davies. At Aberystwyth in the summer of 1941 he met his future wife, Fay Davies of Cardiff, a fellow history student slightly his junior
WILLIAMS, GRACE MARY (1906 - 1977), composer Grace Williams was born in Barry, Glamorgan on 19 February 1906, the eldest of three children of William Matthews Williams (a schoolteacher from Wrexham) and his wife Rose Emily (née Richards), a teacher from Llanelli, who had married in 1900. Her brother Glyn was born in 1908, and her sister Marian in 1919. W. M. Williams was an accomplished musician and the conductor of the Romilly Boys' Choir
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author Richard Bulkeley in 1621, taking as his text Psalm cxiv, 5. In July 1644 he preached at the funeral of Katherine, daughter of William Lewis of Llandygài, when archbishop John Williams and the bishop of Bangor were present, and he is mentioned as one of the mourners at the burial of archbishop John Williams at Llandygài in 1650. He was appointed rector of Trefdraeth in 1626 and dean of Bangor in 1634. In
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet Born 2 February 1769 at Hafod Olau, Waun-fawr, Caernarfonshire. His father was William, second son of Edward Williams of Llwyn-celyn, Llanberis, and his mother was Catrin, daughter of Morgan Gruffydd ('Morgan y Gogrwr') of Llŷn. He started life as a farm worker but later found employment at the Penrhyn quarry where, in due course, he became a foreman. He broke his ankle in an accident in the
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1824 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author , but in 1855 moved to Talsarnau, where he married (producing a large family) and opened a shop. He was ordained in 1857. He is chiefly remembered for his dry wit. He also wrote entertainingly in the periodicals, and published three books: Cofiant y Parch. Richard Humphreys, Dyffryn, 1873; Yr Hynod William Ellis, Maentwrog, 1875 (the story of an old elder); and Bwthyn fy Nhaid Oliver, 1880, 2nd ed

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