Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1883 - 1954), quarryman, choir conductor, soloist and cerdd dant adjudicator Born one of 7 children, 17 January 1883 in Tan-y-fron, Tanygrisiau, Meironnydd, son of William Morris Williams, quarryman, and his wife Jane. His father was precentor in Bethel (CM) chapel, Tanygrisiau for 25 years and the son began to assist him when he was 17. He married in 1905 Mair, daughter of Daniel and Mary Williams, Conglog, Tanygrisiau and they raised a musical family of 3 sons and 2
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer Maud Jones (granddaughter of the eccentric Thomas Job, Cynwyl), and they had three sons and two daughters; she died in 1911; (2) in 1916, Annie Price (head-mistress of Mountain Ash school and daughter of T. Price, minister of Brechfa). He died 18 June 1959, and his remains were buried in front of the new chapel of Bethany. After the Revival Nantlais became associated with the leading personalities
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor Born in Llanfairfechan, Caernarfonshire, 12 December 1924, the elder of the 2 sons of William Henry Williams and his wife Margaret (née Pritchard). He was educated at Llanfairfechan national school, 1928-35, Friars School, Bangor, 1935-42, University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1942-47 (B.A., 1st.-class hons. History, 1945), University of London, 1947-48 (diploma in archive elect studies
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM PRICHARD (1848 - 1916), co-founder of the Princes Road Presbyterian church, Bangor, and publisher of a new edition of Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr by Maurice Kyffin was one of the founders of the Princes Road Presbyterian church, Bangor, and was elected one of its first elders. He was a true scholar and, in 1908, at the request of the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, brought out a new edition of Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr by Maurice Kyffin. He was twice married (1) to Emily (died 17 September 1881), and (2) to her sister, Annie Ada (died 26
WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM RICHARD (1879 - 1961), railway traffic inspector Born 18 March 1879 son of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Agnes his wife, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire. He married, 8 April 1902, Mabel Escott Melluish but had no children. Known in railway circles as ' the man who achieved a schoolboy's ambition to run a railway ', Sir William was educated in Cardiff and began his career with the Rhymney Railway Company in 1893 as a junior clerk. He was put in
WILLIAMS, ZEPHANIAH (1795 - 1874), Chartist obtained a ticket of leave. He then discovered coal on the island, and in time made a considerable fortune. His wife, Joan, and his daughter, Rhoda, joined him in Tasmania in 1854. Williams died at Launceston, Tasmania, on 8 May 1874. LLEWELLYN WILLIAMS 'Pencerdd y De', 'Alawydd y De' (1822 - 1872), harpist Music His son Llewellyn, who remained in Wales, gained repute as a harpist, and was known as
WILLIAMS-ELLIS, JOHN CLOUGH (1833 - 1913), scholar, clergyman, poet and possibly the first Welshman to climb one of the highest mountains in the Alps Oberland. The mountain had been scaled earlier, possibly as early as 1812, but this first British climb motivated William Mathews and Kennedy to establish an Alpine Club. Williams-Ellis did not join the Club and there is no mention of him visiting the Alps again but the family still has his alpenstock. On 2 January 1877 he married Ellen Mabel Greaves. They had 6 sons: Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter , in 1751, to Rome, where he remained six years. From Rome he made painting expeditions to Tivoli, the Alban Hills, and the Neapolitan coast. While in Italy, he abandoned portraiture for landscape, on the advice of Vernet and Zuccarelli. In 1757 he left Italy and settled in London. He exhibited landscapes at the Society of Artists, 1760-8, his first and most famous being the ' Niobe,' painted for the
WINSTONE, JAMES (1863 - 1921) South Wales, miners' leader Born at Risca, Monmouthshire, 1863, son of William and Hannah Winstone. He started to work at 8 years of age in a brick-works, and then at the Risca colliery. He had to leave owing to his trade union activities and went to Treharris. He was, however, appointed check–weighman at Risca, and in 1901, made miners' agent for the eastern valleys district. He was one of the founders of the South Wales
WOGAN family the justiciary, became escheator of Ireland in 1338 and gained the king's praise and reward for his services there and in Wales and Scotland. He died 1357. His great-grandson, JOHN WOGAN (died before 1420), was the last of the male line of the Picton branch. (2) Wiston. The exact relationship between the Picton and Wiston branches of the family has never been determined. The Wogans of Wiston, great
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies which John Roberts was writing. But, according to Robert Roberts ' the great scholar ' (1834 - 1885), the Wood family were to be found round about Flintshire in 1765-8 (Roberts's autobiography 31-6). Abram was a fiddler and not a harpist - it was in Wales that his family learned to play the harp. He is said to have been 100 years old at the time of his death. The date is well known, for he died on the
WOOD, MARY MYFANWY (1882 - 1967), missionary in China, 1908-51 2 February 1967.

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