Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Carw Coch; 1808 - 1872), eisteddfodwr and man of letters Born 6 March 1808 near Aberpergwm in the Vale of Neath, the son of Noah and Joan Williams, who were members of the Unitarian congregation of Blaen Gwrach. At an early age he went to Tredegar, and thence to Llwydcoed, Aberdare, where, in 1832, he married a girl whose family had been settled in that neighbourhood for a long time. In 1837, he built the Stag Inn - hence his pseudonym - at Trecynon
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EMYR (1889 - 1958), solicitor and eisteddfod patron Born 24 May 1889 at Llanffestiniog, Merionethshire, the eldest of the 7 children of Rev. John Williams, minister of Engedi (Calv. Meth.) and Sarah Ann, daughter of Edward Hall, ship's captain and an elder at Tabernacl, Aberystwyth. The family moved to Dolgellau and then, when John Williams was appointed secretary to the Presbyterian Home Mission, to Wrexham. Emyr Williams was educated at Grove
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EWART (1894 - 1966), physicist and inventor linguist, and shared her husband's interest in music. He died at Pasadena 29 April 1966 and was buried in the family grave in Pisgah graveyard, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He left a generous endowment to the University of South California to establish a scholarship to assist students of Welsh extraction to receive vocal and instrumental instruction there. His brother, Robert Arthur Williams, was Chief
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM LLEWELYN (1867 - 1922), Member of Parliament, lawyer, and author Born 10 March 1867 at Brownhill, Llansadwrn, Towy valley (on 15 September 1938 a memorial which had been erected in front of the house was unveiled), the second son of Morgan Williams and his wife Sarah (Davies). The family was well off, and had a tradition of Independency; his grandfather, Morgan Williams, had been an elder at Capel Isaac before moving from Ffrwd-wen (Llandeilo) to Brownhill
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1883 - 1954), quarryman, choir conductor, soloist and cerdd dant adjudicator Born one of 7 children, 17 January 1883 in Tan-y-fron, Tanygrisiau, Meironnydd, son of William Morris Williams, quarryman, and his wife Jane. His father was precentor in Bethel (CM) chapel, Tanygrisiau for 25 years and the son began to assist him when he was 17. He married in 1905 Mair, daughter of Daniel and Mary Williams, Conglog, Tanygrisiau and they raised a musical family of 3 sons and 2
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor lost contact with original archives his grasp as a historian slackened it is to be regretted that he did not seriously take up again the task of studying the Gwynedd gentry. He had a very important contribution to make in that field as his article, ' The Anglesey gentry as business men in Tudor and Stuart times ' (Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 1948) suggests. His family background
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RETLAW JEFFERSON (c.1863 - 1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian the African continent from the Cape to Cairo in 1909-10. He died in 1920. The second son, William Retlaw (which is Walter in reverse) became a solicitor in 1884, and had offices at Brecon and Tal-y-bont on Usk. There was a tradition of practising law in the family. The grandfather, Howell Williams, had married a sister of Walter Powell, the senior partner in the firm of Powell, Jones and Powell
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM WYN (1876 - 1936), minister and poet Born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, 12 July 1876, of a religious family from the district of Bowydd. He was a pupil-teacher in Tanygrisiau before entering Bangor Normal College. He then became a teacher in the neighbourhood of Wrexham. He began to preach and went to University College and Theological College, both at Aberystwyth. In 1909 he was inducted minister of Moriah (Presb
WILLIAMS-ELLIS, JOHN CLOUGH (1833 - 1913), scholar, clergyman, poet and possibly the first Welshman to climb one of the highest mountains in the Alps Oberland. The mountain had been scaled earlier, possibly as early as 1812, but this first British climb motivated William Mathews and Kennedy to establish an Alpine Club. Williams-Ellis did not join the Club and there is no mention of him visiting the Alps again but the family still has his alpenstock. On 2 January 1877 he married Ellen Mabel Greaves. They had 6 sons: Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the
WILLIAMSON, ROBERT (MONA) (Bardd Du Môn; 1807 - 1852), teacher and poet Born at Helygen ('Halkin'), Flintshire, the son of Owen Williamson, gardener, and his wife Dorothy. The family moved to Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire, when the son was about 12 years old. He went to no school, but received some instruction at the hand of the vicar and learnt English and French tolerably well. He kept school in various places in Caernarvonshire and Denbighshire, and, afterwards at
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter A member of the Wilson family of Bwlch-y-llyn and Y Ffinnant, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire., one of the old Welsh families of Arwystli. HUGH WILSON, M.A. (1651 - 1687), vicar Religion of Trefeglwys (1674) and also of Llangurig (1676), was the son of RICHARD (died 1688) and Joanna (died 1678) Wilson, Bwlch-y-llyn, Trefeglwys. He married (1679) Maria (died 1688), widow of William Lloyd, Maes-bangor
WOGAN family The progenitor of the many branches of the Wogan family (there were branches at Boulston, Wiston, Picton, Llanstinan, Stonehall, and elsewhere in Pembrokeshire, as well as in Ireland and England) is supposed to have been GWGAN AP BLEDDYN, lord of Brecknock, one of whose descendants married the heiress of Wiston, who was a descendant of Wizo the Fleming, lord of Daugleddy. (1) Picton. The first

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