Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1732 - 1799), Baptist minister, and justice of the peace ) and the (ultimately victorious) Baptists of south-west Wales who favoured the higher Calvinism and quasi-Methodism. Ironically enough, the principal factor in strengthening the hands of this party was the success of the Baptist mission in North Wales (1776), a mission started by William Williams, in conjunction with Thomas Llewelyn and Joshua Thomas, and of which he was the treasurer and organiser
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Caledfryn; 1801 - 1869), Congregational minister, poet, and critic Born 5 or 6 February 1801 at Bryn y Ffynnon, Denbigh, eldest son of Thomas and Mary Williams. His father, a weaver, also kept a shop. He was educated at a number of schools in the town but c.1814 his father became financially embarrassed; the shop was sold and the family removed to Henllan-street where the father continued his work as a weaver. The son was sent to his grandfather and uncle at
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym ab Ioan; 1800 - 1868), Welsh-American poet Born at Bala, Merionethshire, and educated in an elementary school there. Emigrating to the U.S.A. in 1825, he became a merchant in New York and, in time, secretary of the S. David's Charitable Society. He took the prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1837, for elegiac englynion on Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc); he also won prizes for poems submitted to eisteddfodau in the U.S.A. Many of his
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (fl. 1853), translator and author in 1853. See now the note by E. Wyn James in Canu Gwerin, 27 (2004), p.46 (n.27), which shows that Thomas Levi was the author of the two volumes published under the pseudonym 'Y Lefiad'. The Methodist minister William Williams (1817-1900) contributed an introduction to Thomas Levi's translation, Crynodeb o Gaban 'Newyrth Tom (1853).
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1781 - 1840), Independent minister life of Wales. His name is linked with those of John Elias and Christmas Evans as one of the 'three giants' of the Welsh pulpit. He transformed the style of preaching in his denomination (which was then known as the 'Dry Dissenters') and left a permanent impression on its pulpit oratory. He had an attractive personality and remarkable eyes. His preaching was characterised by its clarity and freshness
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Carw Coch; 1808 - 1872), eisteddfodwr and man of letters eisteddfod was held at the Stag, and from that time on the 'Free Enquirers' became the 'Cymreigyddion of the Carw Coch' (Red Stag). People like Alaw Goch, Dr. Thomas Price, and, indeed, all the local poets and writers took part in the Carw Coch eisteddfod, which continued as an institution for many years. The fruit of one of the series (1853) was the volume Gardd Aberdâr, 1854, which contains, among other
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717 - 1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer deacon in 1740, working as a curate for Theophilus Evans at Llanwrtyd, Llanfihangel, and Llanddewi Abergwesyn until 1743. In that year he was in some trouble in the bishop's court and the bishop refused to ordain him priest. He thereupon cast his energies into the Methodist movement, and he became one of its chief leaders in Wales. He married, c. 1748, Mary Francis of Llansawel and went to live at his
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EMYR (1889 - 1958), solicitor and eisteddfod patron the Gorsedd and Eisteddfod Association became more apparent. Emyr Williams's ' vision and drive proved a great asset to the Joint Committee which strove for the fusion of the two societies into one governing body; his quiet firmness and legal acumen were invaluable in helping to frame a just, comprehensive and workable constitution for the Council in 1937 '. Sir D. Owen Evans was elected chairman
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM JONES (1891 - 1945), revivalist, Apostolic pastor , and travelled with his brother, and on his own, to many countries. He was a pastor to congregations in Pen-y-groes, Bradford, Llandybïe, Cardiff, and the Apostolic church in Edgware, London. He was for many years sub-editor of the Apostolic Herald, a missionary journal established in 1922 as the Apostolic Church Missionary Herald; the title was changed in 1931. He married (1) Mary Anne Evans of
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer Maud Jones (granddaughter of the eccentric Thomas Job, Cynwyl), and they had three sons and two daughters; she died in 1911; (2) in 1916, Annie Price (head-mistress of Mountain Ash school and daughter of T. Price, minister of Brechfa). He died 18 June 1959, and his remains were buried in front of the new chapel of Bethany. After the Revival Nantlais became associated with the leading personalities
WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM RICHARD (1879 - 1961), railway traffic inspector Born 18 March 1879 son of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Agnes his wife, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire. He married, 8 April 1902, Mabel Escott Melluish but had no children. Known in railway circles as ' the man who achieved a schoolboy's ambition to run a railway ', Sir William was educated in Cardiff and began his career with the Rhymney Railway Company in 1893 as a junior clerk. He was put in
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RICHARD (1896 - 1962), minister (Presb.) and Principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth Church, Swansea (1922-25). He was appointed assistant lecturer at Aberystwyth Theological College (1925-27), and then became Professor of the Philosophy of Religion (1927-28), and of Greek and N.T. exegesis (1928-49). He was principal of the college from 1949 until he died in 1962. In 1928 he married Violet Irene Evans of Swansea, and they had a son. W.R. Williams died 18 December 1962. He was a

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