Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet separated as those of Caehywel, Salop; Penmynydd, Anglesey; Madryn and Bodwrda, Llŷn; Golden Grove and Abermarlais in the vale of Towy; and Aberbrân, Brecknock. He also sang the praises of a number of clergymen, among them those of Wiliam Hughes, bishop of St Asaph, and Richard Davies, bishop of S. Davids, whose palace at Abergwili he said he had visited. In his elegy on his friend Owain ap Gwilym, the
WILIEMS, THOMAS (1545 or 1546 - 1622?) Trefriw, priest, scribe, lexicographer, and physician , unlikely that he studied medicine at Oxford as Wood seems to imply. His letters of advice to Sir John Wynn suggests that he was an unorthodox practitioner, in the old folk-medicine tradition, rather than a product of the Oxford faculty of Medicine. Nevertheless, he seems to have been held in high esteem as a physician, for Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd refers to him as a 'doctor of note among his own
WILKINS family . Mary church (Llan-fair), Glamorganshire. The last-named Thomas Wilkins went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1641, and took a law degree in 1661; in addition to S. Mary church he also held the rectories of Gelli-gaer (1666) and Llan-maes (1668), and a prebend at Llandaff. He died 20 August 1699, aged 74. He had married Jane, daughter of Thomas Carne of Nash and grand-daughter of Sir Edward Stradling of S
WILLANS, JOHN BANCROFT (1881 - 1957), country landowner, antiquarian and philanthropist of Dolforgan, Kerry, Montgomeryshire, J.P., F.S.A.; born 27 May 1881 in Liverpool, only child of John William Willans (1843 - 1895), chief engineer of Liverpool Overhead Railway, and of Mary Louisa née Nicholson (1847 - 1911), grandson of Benjamin Willans (1816 - 1895) of Blaina, Monmouth. He was educated partly by private tutors, including Sir Leonard Woolley, and partly at Haileybury. He lived
WILLIAM(S), LEWIS (1774 - 1862), peripatetic teachers , subsequently raised to £4) in his circulating schools. Lewis worked in this capacity in various places in the hundred of Merioneth for the next twenty-five years; among his pupils may be mentioned Mary Jones (the girl who got the Bible from Thomas Charles) and Roger Edwards. He learned to read Welsh, to understand elementary arithmetic, and to some extent to follow English; his reports were detailed. He also
WILLIAMS family Gwernyfed, through his influence that Harris obtained a captaincy in the Brecknock militia; some of the correspondence between the two is preserved in the Trevecka collection. As his only son, Edward, had predeceased him, Gwernyfed was inherited by his daughter, MARY WILLIAMS. She married Thomas Wood of Middlesex; their son, THOMAS WOOD (1777 - 1860), was Member of Parliament for Brecknock from 1806 to 1847
WILLIAMS, Y Fonesig ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND (Alys Mallt, Y Fonesig Mallt Williams; 1867 - 1950), author and celtophile to the annual St. David's Day fund of the Blaid. She was a stalwart supporter of the campaign against the establishment of a training camp for the Royal Air Force at Porth Neigwl and Penyberth; and it was she who coined the name Ysgol Fomio ('bombing school'). She was a strict vegetarian and a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy. She died 28 October 1950 at Plas Pantsaeson and was cremated at Pontypridd
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN (Gwynionydd; 1821 - 1891), cleric and author Born 24 June 1821 at Seilach in the parish of Penbryn, Cardiganshire. He was a cousin to D. Silvan Evans. Originally a Congregationalist, he joined the Established Church. He received some education at Fishguard, and became master of a Madam Bevan school. In 1874 he was ordained deacon, becoming curate to his patron, D. H. Davies, incumbent of Troed-yr-aur; later he was preferred to the living of
WILLIAMS, CHRISTMAS PRICE (1881 - 1965), politician and engineer Born 25 December 1881, the son of Peter Williams and Mary Price his wife, Brymbo Hall, Wrexham, Denbighshire. His father was the managing director of the Brymbo Steel Co. He was educated at Grove Park School, Wrexham, at Mold, and at Victoria University, Manchester, where he graduated B.Sc. (with honours) in science and M.Sc. He earned his living as an engineer at Sheffield, Warrington and South
WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER DAVID (1873 - 1934), artist Born at Maes-teg, Glamorganshire, 7 January 1873, the only son of Evan and Mary Williams. Destined for the medical profession, he eventually overcame parental opposition, and after leaving Oswestry high school and attending art classes at Neath was awarded a scholarship at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. After three years he entered the Royal Academy schools, where he studied under
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1878 - 1968), minister (Meth.) and author Born 17 June 1878, son of Richard Williams, a worker in the Penmaen Quarries, and his wife Anne, at Bodnant, Llanfairfechan, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at the village National School and spent two years at the Cynffig Davies School in Menai Bridge, before being accepted in 1901 as a ministerial candidate in the Methodist church. He served a pre-college year at Llanbedr, Meironnydd, before
WILLIAMS, DANIEL HOWELL (1894 - 1963), aerodynamicist Born 27 June, 1894 at Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, the son of Griffith J. Williams, schoolmaster, and his wife, Mary Helena. He was registered as Daniel John but later adopted his mother's maiden name, Howell. His father was later H.M. Inspector of Mines for north Wales. He was a nephew of Sir Richard J. Williams, Mayor of Bangor, 1913-20. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor and in October

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