Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1818 - 1880), Independent minister
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Son of Edward Williams of the village of Pennon in the parish of Llancarfan, Glamorganshire. He was born (according to his own account) on 10 March 1747. His parents moved afterwards to the neighbouring village of Trefflemin (Flimston) and that was his home, apart from short intervals, until his death. He says himself that he did not attend any school but that he learnt to read whilst watching
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (1890 - 1963), politician
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD VAUGHAN (1797 - 1875), barrister - see WILLIAMS, JOHN
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher father was living at Pen-y-graig, and the Calvinistic Methodists of that district used to meet at his house until their chapel at Rhiw-bwys was built. Reckoning from the record of his death, Evan Williams was born in 1749. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig grammar school under Edward Richard, like his brothers, John ('the old Sir,' 1745/6 - 1818), Thomas, DAVID (warden of Hungerford almshouse, rector of
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1816? - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and artist , including Eben Fardd, David Jones, (Treborth), and Edward Morgan (Dyffryn), but his best work was done in landscape, especially in his pictures of mountain and lake scenery. Between October 1848 and October 1849 he wrote articles on painters and painting to the Traethodydd. He died 2 October 1878, aged 62, and was buried at Caeathro, near Caernarvon. [See article on Prichard, John William.]
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet Born 2 February 1769 at Hafod Olau, Waun-fawr, Caernarfonshire. His father was William, second son of Edward Williams of Llwyn-celyn, Llanberis, and his mother was Catrin, daughter of Morgan Gruffydd ('Morgan y Gogrwr') of Llŷn. He started life as a farm worker but later found employment at the Penrhyn quarry where, in due course, he became a foreman. He broke his ankle in an accident in the
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar . degree for a dissertation on ' The verbal forms in the Mabinogion and Bruts '. In the meantime, with the encouragement of J.H. Davies and with the assistance of an additional scholarship he set about studying the Llanover manuscripts, which were donated to the National Library in 1917. That is how he began to take an interest in the life and work of Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), which became the
WILLIAMS, IOLO ANEURIN (1890 - 1962), journalist, author and art historian vice-president of the Zoological Society of London. He wrote Flowers of marsh and stream (1946) and was an experienced field naturalist. He honoured the memory of his ancestor Iolo Morganwg (Edward WILLIAMS), a collection of whose papers he presented to the National Library of Wales, by taking a keen interest in Welsh matters, including the language, and he served on the Council of the National
WILLIAMS, JOHN (J.W. Llundain; 1872 - 1944), slate merchant foreman in a slate and roofing business in January 1900. The business closed in 1904 but he secured a similar post with a company which was expanding. He married Margaret Jane, second daughter of Edward Lloyd, Pen-y-fron, Derwen, Denbighshire, in December 1900 and they had two daughters and two sons. In September 1923, with his eldest son as clerk, he realised his ambition of setting up a business of
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1757 - 1810), barrister of the 10th (1787), and 11th (1791) editions of Blackstone's Commentaries, and he furnished valuable additional notes to the 3rd ed. (1799-1802) of the Reports of Cases … in the King's Bench in the Reign of Charles II. He died 27 September 1810; see also the D.N.B. One of his sons was Sir EDWARD VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1797 - 1875), barrister and scholar LawScholarship and Languages, who practised on the
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith Marnhull, Dorset, married Joan, daughter of Edward Allen, alderman and sometime sheriff of London. He died 14 September 1637. His will (P.C.C., 127 Goare) describes his personal estate as 'very meane at this present' (he left £50 to the Goldsmiths' company towards building their hall, and various other legacies), but he evidently had a good deal of real property and much money due to him; he was buried

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