Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, ELIEZER (1754 - 1820), cleric, author, and schoolmaster , who died in infancy; Anne Williams died in 1796; and (2), at the end of 1796, Jane Amelia Nugent, daughter of St. George Armstrong, Armaduff, Drumsna, Leitrim, Ireland; by her he had eight children. Jane Williams died 31 December 1809.
WILLIAMS, ELISEUS (Eifion Wyn; 1867 - 1926), poet His parents came from the Eifionydd countryside, but he himself was born at Portmadoc 2 May 1867 and spent the last thirty years of his life as clerk and accountant in the office of the North Wales Slate Co. in that town. He had been a schoolmaster for a short time - at the Board School, Portmadoc, and at Pentrefoelas. About 1889 he began to preach in Independent chapels but refused all calls to
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer culture of the Prescelly district permanently influenced his literary work. After completing a course at Bangor Baptist College, 1928-31, he was ordained on 2 September 1931 as minister of Tabernacl church, Maesteg. On 10 September 1936 he was inducted minister of Ebeneser church, Ammanford, where he spent the rest of his life. He was highly esteemed as a minister and his services as a preacher were
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1706 - ?), harpist brothers of Anglesey refer to Evan William in their letters. It is not known when he died. His name appears in the Cymmrodorion list of members for 1762, but is not in that for 1777-8.
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, EVAN (1724 - 1758), Welsh Moravian April 1758, Williams was sent to Derwen Deg, near Ruthin, to open a Moravian mission in North Wales; but he died there 2 May 1758, and was buried at Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd.
WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner Born 2 July 1871, son of Thomas Williams, colliery owner, of Llwyn Gwern, Pontarddulais, Glamorganshire. Educated at Christ College, Brecon, and Clare College, Cambridge, he returned to Carmarthenshire in 1892 to assist in his father's colliery company. His election in 1913 as chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners Association marked the beginning of a long period of prominence
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), physicist Evan James Williams was born on 8 June 1903 at Brynawel, Cwmsychbant, Cardiganshire, the youngest of three sons born to James Williams (1868-1950), stonemason, and his wife Elizabeth (Bes) (née Lloyd, 1870-1948). He was known amongst his friends by the nickname 'Desin' because of his proficiency with decimal numbers. He attended Llanwenog School and Llandysul County School before winning a
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), scientist Born 8 June 1903 at Cwmsychpant, Cardiganshire, the son of James Williams, mason and Elizabeth (née Lloyd), his wife. He proceeded from the primary school at Llanwenog to the county school at Llandysul, and from there to the University College of Swansea, where he took a first-class honours degree in physics in 1923. He pursued scientific researches at Swansea, Manchester and Cambridge, and had
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler consists of examinations made by Pennant of six witnesses, the fullest of which was that provided by Margaret Griffith. She testified to having heard a noise in the house between one and two o'clock on the morning of 2 August, but said that she dismissed it at the time. Upon getting up in the morning and entering the kitchen, however, she found that clothes left there the previous evening had disappeared
WILLIAMS, GEORGE (1879 - 1951), company director and Lord Mayor of Cardiff Born 2 December 1879 at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the son of Frederick and Mary A. Williams, he was educated at Haverfordwest Grammar School. From 1920 to 1945 he was in business as a builder's merchant and he was also a managing director of numerous companies, among them Williams and Borgars Ltd., Camrose Estates Ltd. and Whitehead's Electrical Inventions Ltd. During the 1930s he was to the
WILLIAMS, Sir GEORGE CLARK (1878 - 1958), BARONET and county court judge Born at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, 2 November 1878, fourth child of Samuel and Martha Williams. His father was one of the owners of a company selling timber and of the largest tin works in the town at its industrial peak, namely the Old Lodge Works. An uncle and a cousin had been High Sheriffs of the county, and a relative, Samuel Williams, one of the doctors of the town, endowed postgraduate

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