Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JOHN CEULANYDD (Ceulanydd; 1847? - 1899), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Robert Foulkes, Denbigh, and John Palmer, Amlwch, under the title of Y Ddau Foneddwr (n.d.); (2) a critical essay on the poetry of Ceiriog, under the title Athrylith Ceiriog Hughes (1892?); and (3) a lecture on Welsh hymnology delivered at the annual meetings of the Welsh Baptist Union at Cardigan in 1888. But his main interest was poetry. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards, a frequent adjudicator
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS (1901 - 1975), author and dramatist
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar He was born 17 January 1912, in Gwauncaegurwen, Glamorganshire. His father's name was John R. Williams, his mother's maiden name was Maria Price; they had a son, Keri, and a daughter, Morfudd, as well as Caerwyn. His father was a coal-miner who had migrated south from Y Groeslon, Caernarvonshire in search of work, his mother came from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire; Caerwyn was glad that he had
WILLIAMS, JOHN HUW (1871 - 1944), newspaper editor
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet Born 8 October 1869 at Taigwynion, near Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, the eldest of the twelve children of William and Elizabeth Williams. The father was a member at Bethel (Congl.) church, Tal-y-bont, and the mother at Pen-y-garn (CM) church. He attended Pwll-glas Sunday school and it was John Oliver, his teacher, who told him the time and place to hear 'the bells of Cantre'r Gwaelod '. He had his
WILLIAMS, JOHN JOHN (1884 - 1950), school-teacher, education administrator, producer and drama adjudicator Born 12 July 1884, in High Street, Caernarfon, the only child of John Williams and Anne (née Jones). The father was a quarryman. The mother ran a guesthouse for travellers; she died when the child was only eight years of age. He received his early education at the towns Board School and afterwards at Llanrug British School. One of his contemporaries at Caernarfon central school (c. 1896-98) was
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author , Machynlleth 1995, and a knighthood in 1999. In 2004, at the age of eighty-six, Kyffin Williams travelled to Venice for a television programme commissioned by BBC Cymru/Wales, directed by John Hefin and entitled 'Reflections in a Gondola'. In it Kyffin listed the four most significant and fateful events of his life: his birth in Anglesey, seeing the picture of the fresco by Piero della Francesca, painting on
WILLIAMS, JOHN LEWIS (1882 - 1916), Wales and Cardiff Rugby wing three-quarter, and coal exporter (Greenslade and Williams)
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL CECIL- - see CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL
WILLIAMS, JOHN LLOYD (1854 - 1945), botanist and musician Professor (Sir) John Bretland Farmer at the Royal College of Science, London, where he was Marshall Scholar, and from 1897 to 1912 he was assistant lecturer in Botany at University College, Bangor. From 1912-15 he was Adviser in Agricultural Botany to the Board of Agriculture at Bangor when he was invited to the Chair of Botany at Aberystwyth, retiring in 1925. While in London he started his classic
WILLIAMS, JOHN OWEN (Pedrog; 1853 - 1932), Congregational minister, and poet
WILLIAMS, JOHN RICHARD (J.R. Tryfanwy; 1867 - 1924), poet

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