Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DANIEL THOMAS (Tydfylyn; 1820 - 1876), Congregational minister, poet, and musician
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1793? - 1845), author
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1877 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister and college tutor Born 4 May 1877 at Holyhead; son of Eliezer and Elizabeth Williams; the father (died 1914), a Flintshire man, a carpenter, an elder in his church, was a man widely read in theology, and acquired some knowledge of Greek; the mother (died 1923) kept a shop. The son went to school at Holyhead, at Beaumaris, and at Oswestry under Owen Owen, (1850 - 1920), and thence to University College, Aberystwyth
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born at Is-coed, Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, son of William Dafydd. Richard William Dafydd, the exhorter, was his brother. As a young man he came to Glamorgan to work for Christopher Bassett, junior of Aberthaw, and began to exhort in the Methodist societies c. 1742. It is not certain whether he was the David Williams who was appointed a ' private exhorter ' at the Watford Association, 1743
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709 - 1784), Independent minister Born in 1709, the second son of William and Catherine David, Pwll-y-pant (between Caerphilly and Llanbradach) - the family was well-to-do. He was educated at Carmarthen Academy under Perrott, and in 1734 was ordained minister of Trinity (English) chapel, Cardiff. The congregation of Trinity was small and moribund, but David Williams (like his predecessor) ministered to the Independents scattered
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1779 - 1874), Congregational minister
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1702 - 1779), early Welsh Moravian Born in Llandwrog parish, Caernarfonshire, 2 August 1702. In 1728 at latest, he was a bookbinder in London. He and his wife joined the Moravian society in 1739. She died 5 December 1766, and at the end of 1767 he decided to return to his native region. It was he who brought Mrs. Alice Griffith (see Griffith, William, 1719 - 1782) into contact with Moravianism, and got David Mathias sent to north
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister them to seek refuge in Swansea. Joseph Harris (Gomer) gave the family shelter and kept Williams to preach to English congregations at Swansea and to instruct his son John in the classics. He died 10 January 1823. ' P. A. Môn ' composed an elegiac awdl, and Caledfryn elegiac englynion in his memory.
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Alaw Goch; 1809 - 1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr becoming a coal-owner was in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed) at Ynyscynon, Cwm-bach, where they began sinking a pit in 1847, and entered into a lease of a coal-mine, dated 31 December 1844, for 48 years (N.L.W. Ewenny MS. 374). After Lewis gave up, David Williams carried on alone. After being successful here, he soon opened another colliery at Aberaman, obtaining a lease from Crawshay Bailey
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer Born in 1738 at Waunwaelod (later the Carpenters' Arms), in the parish of Eglwysilan, near the Watford chapel, on a by-road between Caerphilly and Cardiff. His father was William David (born at Llwynybarcud, in the parish of Llanharry). He was educated at a school kept in the neighbourhood by his namesake, David Williams (1709 - 1784), Dissenting minister of the Trinity chapel, Womanby Street
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1799 - 1869), Member of Parliament - see WILLIAMS
WILLIAMS, DAVID CHRISTMAS (1871 - 1926), musician

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