Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (1890 - 1963), politician
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD VAUGHAN (1797 - 1875), barrister - see WILLIAMS, JOHN
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer ' of his early days at the foot of the Prescelly hills; Tua'r cyfnos (1943), a prize-winning novel in a competition held by Llyfrau'r Dryw; a biography of Thomas Phillips, 1868-1936 (1946), Principal of the Baptist College Cardiff Dan y sêr, a programme presented by Urdd y Seren Fore at the Assembly of the Baptist Union of Wales at Brynaman, 1948; and two travel books, Crwydro Sir Benfro (1958, 1960
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 (1719 - 1748), Congregational minister and revivalist Born 6 January 1719 at Abercrave, Brecknock - a brother to William Evans (1716 - 1770), Cwmllynfell. He came from a religious family. It is probable that he was at Joseph Simmons's school at Swansea or Neath. In the bitter controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism at Cwmllynfell he joined the party of Howel Harris and Daniel Rowland. He was a true revivalist both by nature and by conviction
WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler in securing the original verdict, felt a particular interest in seeing the back of Frances: the 'precious cargo' among 'the Fflint convicts' whom his acquaintance, judge Daines Barrington mentioned in a letter dated 25 January 1786 was no doubt a reference to her. Eventually, the time came for Frances to be conveyed to Portsmouth, bound in irons and escorted by guards Joseph Simon and Daniel Jones
WILLIAMS, Sir GEORGE CLARK (1878 - 1958), BARONET and county court judge
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian education, but he had for some years an ambition to enter the Welsh Baptist ministry, and so studied Welsh in the sixth form, in addition to English and History. A brilliant student, he was given a State Scholarship, a Merthyr Scholarship, and a Sir Owen M. Edwards Scholarship to study at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1937. In Aberystwyth, where he played a prominent part in student life
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author rector of S. Bennet Sherhog, 1612-6. At this time he aroused opposition by preaching against the Puritans. When he published his book, The Resolutions of Pilate, the bishop of London inhibited him from preaching but through the intervention of the archbishop of Canterbury he was appointed to the living of Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire. It was he who preached the funeral sermon at the burial of Sir
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar field. He worked under the supervision of Sir John Morris-Jones at Bangor during the 1919-20 academic year and spent periods studying manuscripts at the British Museum in London, the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Free Library, Cardiff, as well as parish records of the Vale of Glamorgan. During this period he also had to defend his scholarship in the public press in the face of fierce attacks by
WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH (1718 - 1794), soldier and Member of Parliament Born in 1718, the son of Griffith Williams of Ariannws (Llangelynnin, Conway valley) and grandson of Edmund Williams, brother of Sir Hugh Williams of Marl; when his kinsman Sir Robert Williams of Marl died (1745), he succeeded as 8th baronet 'of Penrhyn' (J. E. Griffith Pedigrees, 186 and 43). He married, in 1761, Emma, widow of lord James Bulkeley and heiress of Caerau and Castellior (see under

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