Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, MEIRION (1901 - 1976), musician inherited musical gifts from his mother, who was an enthusiastic member of the local church choir. He had piano lessons from a blind teacher, J. L. Owen of Blaenau Ffestiniog, and when still a boy would play the organ at Llanddwywe and Llanenddwyn churches. At the age of eleven he went to Barmouth Secondary School, but left in 1914 to work in the family shop. In 1919 he acted as an accompanist at the
WILLIAMS, OWEN HERBERT (1884 - 1962), surgeon and Professor of Surgery Born 2 January 1884 at Bodrwnsiwn, Llanfaelog, Anglesey, son of Owen and Jane Williams, of a farming family. The father died before his son had reached his first birthday, and all his life he paid tribute to his mother's untiring efforts to secure an education for her son. After his primary education at Llanfaelog school he attended the grammar school at Beaumaris and then went to the University
WILLIAMS, PHILIP (d. 1717), genealogist his son LLEWELYN WILLIAMS (who was buried 20 November 1740). For the titles of some of the poems (including one by ' Richard Edwards y prydydd o Wynedd') see volume one of N.L.W. Schedule of Penrice and Margam Muniments, 1942. For further details of the family see D. Rhys Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 1925; see also G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 224.
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1747 - 1811), cleric and man of letters Born at Hawarden in 1747, the son of the rector, Richard Williams (M.A., Jesus College, Oxford), who in turn was the son of Peter Williams, also a clergyman, owner of Fron (Arddynwynt) near Mold - the family claimed to be descended from Cynwrig Efell (Yorke, Royal Tribes of Wales). He entered Brasenose College, Oxford, in December 1765, at the age of 18, but there is no record of his having
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Trebor Mai; 1830 - 1877), poet Born 25 May 1830 at Ty'n-yr-ardd near Llanrhychwyn, Caernarfonshire, the son of a tailor. He was educated at a local Llanrhychwyn school and for a period attended the free school at Llanrwst. When he was 13 his family moved to Llanrwst and he applied himself to his father's craft. After marriage on 13 October 1854 he commenced business as a tailor on his own account in that town, and there spent
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1848 - 1918), architect, author and social reformer bedrooms, with separate w.c. and scullery - at a time when the outside privy remained the norm. The family rose to some prominence on 13 October 1908. Williams's daughter - who had evidently inherited her father's political views - was Margaret Travers Symons, secretary to Keir Hardie. She was a suffragette, who on the pretence of being an escorted visitor to the Houses of Parliament, burst into the
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1810 - 1881), cleric, Celtic scholar and antiquary reliable. His most important works have been noticed above, but he made other contributions to scholarship to which reference must be made. He published The History and Antiquities of the Town of Aberconway (Denbigh, 1835); he revised many of the notes to the new edition (Oswestry, 1878) of the The history of the Gwydir family by Sir John Wynne; he translated 'The Book of Taliesin' for W. F. Skene's Four
WILLIAMS, ROBERT JOHN (PRYSOR; 1891 - 1967), collier and actor Born 13 April 1891 at Trawsfynydd, Meironnydd. His father, Ellis, was a carpenter and died young; his mother, Eliza, daughter of ' Eos Prysor ', raised him and his sister with the scant assistance of the Board of Guardians. He was educated at Trawsfynydd British School but he left when he was ten years old to earn his living as a farm-worker. When his mother re-married the family moved to the
WILLIAMS, ROGER (1667 - 1730), Independent minister , James, died 1760). He died 25 May 1730 at the age of 63, and John and David Williams were ordained ministers of Cefnarthen. John is known to have been his son and David probably belonged to the same family. The Williamses were a powerful clan in Cefnarthen, and other members of the family were Morgan Williams of Ty'n-coed, the able secretary of the church and one of the most prominent Dissenting
WILLIAMS, Sir ROGER (1540? - 1595), soldier and author Williams, a member of the family of Penrhos, Monmouth (this family bore, later, the surname Addams-Williams - see under Williams, Sir Trevor); and (3) Sir Roger Williams (1540? - 1595), soldier and author; it is with him that this short note will be concerned. Like his namesake, the second Roger Williams named above, Sir Roger Williams was a member of the family of Penrhos, being the son of Thomas
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (Hwfa Môn; 1823 - 1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales Born at Pen y Graig, Trefdraeth, Anglesey, in March 1823. When he was 5 years of age the family went to live at Rhos-tre-Hwfa, near Llangefni, where he was brought up as a Calvinistic Methodist until he was 14. He was apprenticed to John Evans, a Llangefni carpenter, and later worked at his trade at Bangor, Deiniolen, Port Dinorwic, and other places. In 1847 he returned to Anglesey and shortly
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN JOSEPH (1896 - 1992), Welsh scholar Stephen J. Williams was born in Blaen-y-gors, a small-holding between Ystradgylais and Creunant at the head of the Swansea valley, 11 February 1896, the eighth of the nine children of Rhys and Ann Williams (née Gibbs). The father came from a family of farmers in Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, the mother from Alltwen, Swansea Valley. When he was a year old his family moved to Ystradgynlais where

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