Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity ' Daniel Williams ' who took out a Presbyterian licence in Wrexham in 1672 under the Indulgence of Charles II; for one thing he was in Ireland at that time, and for another Philip Henry does not mention it. It is, of course, possible that Williams took out the licence when he was visiting the town. His biography is given in some detail by Alexander Gordon in the D.N.B., so that in this volume a brief
WILLIAMS, FREDERICK GEORGE ROBERTSON (d. 1945), landowner - see WILLIAMS, ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian of his Welsh essays on religious leaders in Wales, Grym Tafodau Tân in 1985, together with a short bilingual study of Henry Tudor. He himself had persuaded Oxford University Press to launch a series of standard general histories of Wales, the first of which appeared in 1981, and in 1987 he produced for this series a second magnum opus entitled Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist other hand are the persistent traditions about the quasi-miraculous wonders of ' Cae'r Fendith ' (the Field of Blessing); Joshua Thomas the historian had a good look at the field in 1745; Dr. William Richards gave a prominent place to the story in his Cambro-British Biography, and David Davies (1849 - 1926) a more prominent place still in his biography of Vavasor Powell. Henry Maurice, in 1675, said
WILLIAMS, HENRY PARRY - see PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator Williams died at Cobden Villa, Ferryside, 19 October 1874, and was buried in the churchyard of S. Ishmael, Ferryside. His widow, who remarried, died 25 February 1909. Hugh Williams is important because of his connections with the Chartist and 'Rebecca' movements. At an early date he had become the friend of Henry Hetherington and James Watson, two of the twelve authors of the People's Charter. In 1836 he
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar Welsh language (Cymmrodor, xxvi). Sir Ifor's studies in this field were new and original and made a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the background of Dafydd ap Gwilym's life and work. It was the same desire to produce texts for the use of students that prompted the publication of Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac Eraill in 1925, jointly with Thomas Roberts and Henry Lewis. Sir Ifor also edited the works
WILLIAMS, IOAN PENRY BRYCHAN ROBERTSON (fl. 1929), author - see WILLIAMS, ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND
WILLIAMS, ISAAC (1802 - 1865), cleric, poet, and theologian year went into residence as a tutor in philosophy. In 1833 he was made dean of the college. He was rhetoric lecturer from 1834 to 1840 and vice-president of his college in 1841-2. Soon after his return to Trinity College he became curate to John Henry Newman at S. Mary's, Oxford. They became very firm friends, and when the Oxford Movement threatened the unity of the Church, Isaac Williams quickly
WILLIAMS, JANE (Ysgafell; 1806 - 1885), Welsh historian and miscellaneous writer She was the daughter of David and Eleanor Williams of Riley Street, Chelsea, where she was born on 1 February 1806. Her father, who held an appointment in the Navy office, was descended from Henry Williams (1624?-1684), of Ysgafell, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, a friend of Vavasor Powell. Owing to her weak health she spent the first half of her life at Neuadd Felen, near Talgarth, Brecknock
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith John Williams junior's will that Henry Cary (first viscount Falkland, and father of the Civil War hero) had become bound 'in greate somme of money' to the elder John Williams. An even more exalted borrower appears in an entry in Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 28 September 1621 : 'grant and sale to John Williams, goldsmith, of certain jewels as security for a loan to the King of £3,000 and
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1627 - 1673), Nonconformist preacher, and physician at Bryn Gro, Clynnog, in 1666, but she was christened at Llangian, and it is quite certain that he generally lived at Tyn-y-coed - the house which, on 5 September 1672, was registered as a meeting-house under the Indulgence of that year. At the end of August 1672 Henry Maurice visited Llŷn and called at Tyn-y-coed to look up his 'kinsman' to use his own expression - although the connection between

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