Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JOHN (1727 - 1798), Dissenting minister, scholar and author of Dr. Williams's trustees. A portrait of him hangs in the Library which he served. He married (1), 1767, Mrs. Martha Still (died 1777), a widow; and (2), 1781, Elizabeth Dunn. He died 15 April 1798. His chief publications were works of Biblical and linguistic scholarship: (1) A concordance to the Greek Testament, 1767, a standard work until superseded by Wigram's concordance; (2) A free enquiry
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan ap Ioan; 1800 - 1871), Baptist minister and author original sayings, but he is best remembered to-day as a poet and biographer. He published (1) Lloffyn y Prydydd, 1839, a volume of poetry, in both strict and free metres, on Biblical, social, and local subjects and including a number of elegies; (2) Cofiant … Dafydd Saunders, Merthyr, 1842; (3) Cofiant y Parch John Jones, Llandyssil, 1859; and (4) a biography of Benjamin Thomas, Baptist minister, Penrhiw
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1768 - 1825), Baptist minister Born 8 March 1768 at Plas Llecheiddior, near Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire. He moved when quite young to a house called Rhwng-y-ddwyryd, Dolbenmaen. Although brought up as an Anglican he refused his family's offer of a course of education in the classics but chose instead to enter a business at Caernarvon. He was converted when he heard a sermon given by David Morris, Twr-gwyn, Calvinistic
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1745/6 - 1818), cleric and schoolmaster the Church (see the list in D. G. Osborne-Jones, Edward Richard of Ystrad Meurig, 60-2). He married Jane, daughter of Lewis Rogers (high sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1753), and they had three sons and one daughter, Letitia Maria who married David Davies. After becoming headmaster of Ystrad Meurig, John Williams was licensed to curacies at Lledrod and Llanafan; in April 1793, he was appointed rector
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1926), baronet, Court physician, principal founder of the National Library of Wales Born 6 November 1840 at Bailey, Gwynfe, Carmarthenshire, third son of David Williams, Blaenllynant, Welsh Congregational minister and farmer, and Eleanor his wife. Educated at a local school, at the Normal school at Swansea (he then thought of preparing for the ministry), and at the University of Glasgow (1857-8), he was (20 July 1859) apprenticed to Dr. W. H. Michael and Dr. Ebenezer Davies
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1833 - 1872), antiquary and lawyer : David Hughes, M.A., and his Free Grammar School at Beaumaris (Bangor, 1864); ' Penmynydd and the Tudors ' (Archæologia Cambrensis, 1869); Hen Blas (The Old Palace) in Beaumaris (Holyhead, 1869); and ' The History of Berw ' (Supplement, Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1915); other fruits of his labours are to be found in the National Library of Wales. He died 8 January
WILLIAMS, JOHN (RUFUS) (Rufus; 1833 - 1877), Baptist minister and author 1859 he was ordained minister of the English church at Dowlais, where he also kept a school for ministerial candidates, and on 6 January 1861 he moved to the Welsh church at Nebo, Ystradyfodwg, where he remained till his death 12 February 1877. He married (1) 1866, Mary Davies, daughter of Thomas Davies, Ynys y Maerdy, near Llantrisant, who died within a little over two years; (2) N. Jenkins, a
WILLIAMS, JOHN CEULANYDD (Ceulanydd; 1847? - 1899), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Robert Foulkes, Denbigh, and John Palmer, Amlwch, under the title of Y Ddau Foneddwr (n.d.); (2) a critical essay on the poetry of Ceiriog, under the title Athrylith Ceiriog Hughes (1892?); and (3) a lecture on Welsh hymnology delivered at the annual meetings of the Welsh Baptist Union at Cardigan in 1888. But his main interest was poetry. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards, a frequent adjudicator
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS (1901 - 1975), author and dramatist cyfoes (1961), and an autobiography, Inc yn fy ngwaed (1963). A festschrift edited by Meredydd Evans, Gwr wrth grefft (1974), has a bibliography. Both books contain photographs of J. Ellis Williams. J. Ellis Williams died at ysbyty Dewi Sant, Bangor 7 January 1975 and was cremated at Bangor Crematorium. He left a widow ('Cadi') and 2 daughters. There is a collection of his papers at the National
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar Cymru [The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language], 1970-99, and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies Poets of the Princes Series, 8 volumes, 1991-6: Caerwyn, together with Professor Peredur Lynch, was responsible for the whole of Volume I of this series, Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i Ddisgynyddion [The Work of Meilyr Brydydd and his Descendants], 1994. He was also able to
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet Born 8 October 1869 at Taigwynion, near Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, the eldest of the twelve children of William and Elizabeth Williams. The father was a member at Bethel (Congl.) church, Tal-y-bont, and the mother at Pen-y-garn (CM) church. He attended Pwll-glas Sunday school and it was John Oliver, his teacher, who told him the time and place to hear 'the bells of Cantre'r Gwaelod '. He had his
WILLIAMS, MOSES (1685 - 1742), cleric and scholar Son of Samuel Williams of Llandyfrïog. Born 2 March 1685 at Glaslwyn, Cellan, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Carmarthen grammar school and University College, Oxford (B.A. 1708). He became M.A. (Cantab.) ten years later. He was one of Edward Lhuyd's assistants in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and was subsequently on the staff of the Bodleian Library. He was ordained deacon 2 March 1709 and

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