Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JONATHAN (1752? - 1829), cleric, schoolmaster, and antiquary to Oxford until 1786, long after his younger brothers - his son, also John Williams (1797 - 1873) had a distinguished career at Oxford, becoming a Fellow and tutor of Christ Church. The youngest of the three brothers was HENRY WILLIAMS (1756 - 1818), a graduate from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1778; he is said to have written the article on Rhayader in Nicholson's guide-book, but this is not
WILLIAMS, LUCY GWENDOLEN (1870 - 1955), sculptress Born in 1870 at New Ferry, near Liverpool, daughter of Henry Lewis Williams, priest, and Caroline Sarah (née Lee), his wife. Her father was the son of John Williams, Highfield Hall, Northop, Flintshire, but Gwendolen Williams can hardly be said to be Welsh from the point of view of her professional dedication. She studied art under Alfred Drury at Wimbledon Art College before proceeding to the
WILLIAMS, MARGARET LINDSAY (1888 - 1960), artist ', 1924. Among her early works are landscapes and titled paintings, some revealing an unusual and original imagination, such as 'The devil's daughter' and 'The triumph' which were exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1917. Nevertheless, she inclined more and more to portraiture after the war and among her sitters were clients as varied as Henry Ford, Field Marshall Slim and Ivor Novello, as well as many
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician necessary for her to give birth to the illegitimate child she was expecting by the second Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Henry Windham Quin (1782-1850). Elizabeth Ann and Maria Jane returned to Aberpergwm at the end of the summer with a young baby. Maria Jane also used her stay in Ireland in 1826 to tour Cork and Kerry, learning Irish folksongs. This stay and her meeting with the renowned Irish
WILLIAMS, MORGAN (c. 1750 - 1830), cleric Editor of two booklets entitled Collectanea; neu Gasgliadau o Flodeuog-Waith yr Awduron Brytanaidd (Carmarthen, 1820, 1823). He may be the ' Morgan Williams of Penderin ' who was ordained deacon 14 August 1774 and priest 6 August 1775, in which case he became curate of Aberedw, Radnorshire, in 1775, and curate of Vaynor and Taf-fechan, Brecknock, in 1788. It is as curate of Bayvil, Pembrokeshire
WILLIAMS, MORGAN (1808 - 1883), chartist
WILLIAMS, MORGAN, Dissenting layman - see WILLIAMS, ROGER
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL (1742 - 1826), Baptist (Particular, afterwards General) minister, theological controversialist, hymn-writer, and amateur doctor with the group of churches round Ffynnon-henry. David Jones (Bed. Deheubarth, 496) says that he was the first to preach at Cwmfelinfynach, and that he intended to build a church there but that the church at Rhydwilym intervened, and that he then left the place. He was ordained at Ffynnon-henry in 1785, apparently as a peripatetic preacher and minister and not to any particular church. In 1785 he
WILLIAMS, PETER BAILEY (1763 - 1836), cleric and writer -rug and Llanberis, where he spent the rest of his life; in addition, he was for some years (1815-25?) perpetual curate of Betws Garmon. He married (1) Hannah Jones of Llanrwst (died 1835) in September 1804, by whom he had a son, HENRY BAILEY WILLIAMS (1805 - 1879), rector of Llanberis (1836-43) and Llan-rug (1843-79); and (2) Charlotte Hands (widow) of Shrewsbury (died 1849) in November 1835. He was
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic Raymond Williams was born on 31 August 1921 in Pandy, near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, the only child of Henry Joseph Williams, a railway signalman, and his wife Esther Gwendoline (née Bird). Aspects of his upbringing and the lives of his parents are conveyed in his first novel, Border Country (1960), most centrally the ways in which the General Strike and Lockout of 1926 exposed strains within a
WILLIAMS, ROGER (1667 - 1730), Independent minister , James, died 1760). He died 25 May 1730 at the age of 63, and John and David Williams were ordained ministers of Cefnarthen. John is known to have been his son and David probably belonged to the same family. The Williamses were a powerful clan in Cefnarthen, and other members of the family were Morgan Williams of Ty'n-coed, the able secretary of the church and one of the most prominent Dissenting
WILLIAMS, Sir ROGER (1540? - 1595), soldier and author he was a member of a troop of 300 men who went to Flushing, under captain Thomas Morgan (c. 1542 - 1595), to assist the Dutch against the armies of Spain; he fought also alongside of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Philip Sidney. From the Netherlands he went to Germany - for details refer to the D.N.B. He was knighted by the earl of Leicester - possibly in 1586. His first publication was A Brief

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