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  • WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1826 - 1886), iron-master
  • WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1818 - 1880), Independent minister
  • 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, 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
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (1745/6 - 1818), cleric and schoolmaster Born in the spring of 1745/6, eldest son of David Williams, Swyddffynnon, Cardiganshire (a blacksmith by trade, and one of the early Methodist exhorters). He was a brother of Evan Williams, (1749 - 1835). He was a pupil of Edward Richard at Ystrad Meurig, and in 1765 he went to teach in a school at Woodstock chapel, Ambleston, Pembrokeshire. Early in 1766 he went to teach at Cardigan, and he was
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740 - 1821), musician gift for teaching, paid for three months' schooling for him at Shrewsbury; he also received lessons in playing the trumpet and the flute. After returning from Shrewsbury he began to write music and poetry. In 1763 he married Jane, daughter of William Jones, Bryn Rhyg, Dolgelley. He relinquished the craft of hat-making in 1772 to become a clerk to Edward Anwyl, solicitor, Dolgelley; he afterwards kept