Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH HELEN (1838 - 1910), author - see ROWLAND, THOMAS
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer Born 12 December 1906 at y Lan, near Efail-wen, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Brynconyn primary school, Llandysilio (where John Idwal Williams, father of his lifelong friend Waldo Williams, was headmaster) and at the county school in Narberth where he later began his career as an apprentice to a chemist. He was baptized in 1923 at Rhydwilym, and the traditions of that ancient church and the
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 (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher He was one of the five remarkable sons of David Williams, a Calvinistic Methodist exhorter in Cardiganshire. The father was a blacksmith and he is said to have practised his craft at Swyddffynnon, Esgair near Llangwyryfon, and Pen-y-graig, Llanrhystud. He may have moved to meet the needs of the Mabws and Ffos-y-bleiddiaid estates. The children were probably born at Swyddffynnon, but in 1777 the
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1719 - 1748), Congregational minister and revivalist . In 1742 he returned to Cwmllynfell. An Evan Williams, Carmarthen Presbyterian Academy, received a grant from the Congregational Fund in 1743. Perhaps he entered the Academy that year but travelled much throughout the country to preach between 1743 and 1745. The epic of his career was his strange journey to Caernarvonshire, where he was cruelly persecuted. He is named as 'minister' of Cwmllynfell in
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1706 - ?), harpist Born at Llangybi, Caernarfonshire. (The following entry is in the baptisms register of Llangybi church - ' September about 29 was baptized Evan, son of Humphrey Robert (Singer) and Jane Griffith his wife.' Nothing is known of his youth. He was an excellent harpist. Like many Welsh musicians he went to London (c. 1740). He assisted John Parry, Ruabon, to collect material for and bring out his
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1816? - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and artist Born in Lledrod, Cardiganshire, c.1816. For four years he was a missioner amongst Welsh people in London. He began to preach at Mold in 1848; he went to live to Caernarvon in 1851, and was ordained in 1859. He had no pastoral charge. He was best known as a portrait and landscape painter, and was usually called Evan Williams the limner'. He painted the portraits of several contemporaries
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, FOULK ROBERT (Eos Llyfnwy; 1774 - 1870), musician Born at Hendreforion-bach, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, (and christened 6 October 1774), the son of Robert William, weaver, and Lowry his wife. Owing to his gift as a singer he came to be called ' Ffowc bach y canwr '; later he was known as Foulk Roberts. When he was 17 he received music lessons for a period of three months from John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), these lessons being paid for by some
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler What we know of Frances Williams, a woman from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, arises from one central event in her life. Under cover of darkness on 1 August 1783, she apparently broke into the home of a former employer, the artist Moses Griffith, and stole items belonging to him, his wife Margaret, and their maid, Elizabeth Cotterall. This act had far-reaching consequences for her. Frances's

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