Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, MARGARETTA (Rita) (1933 - 2018), lecturer and Celtic linguist in voluntary work for Urdd Gobaith Cymru. They were married in 1969, and Rita followed Carl to his various Baptist chapels in Pontarddulais, Penygroes and Fishguard. They were both stalwarts of the Welsh-language community in Fishguard in particular, and in addition to their chapel duties, were responsible for publishing the local 'papur bro' Y Llien Gwyn, teaching Welsh to adults and organizing
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic the rank of captain, and these experiences inform the war scenes in his fifth novel, Loyalties (1985). The fact that he fought against fascism contributed to his later authority as an intellectual of the post-war New Left and distinguished his generation (which included E. P. Thompson, Richard Hoggart and Gwyn A. Williams) from the later 'new' New Left of the 1960s (Perry Anderson, Tom Nairn, Terry
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads there is a manuscript volume of them in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 1143B). He could turn out some exquisite verse, e.g. 'Lliw gwyn, rhosyn yr haf.' But his own preference was for satire or comic songs which, says Glaslyn, were frequently pretty low, with a whiff of the muck-heap about them. He died at Liverpool (where he sang in the 'Cambria' and the 'Portmadoc Arms'), but the date of his
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Twrog; 1768 - 1836), poet in 1823, and to a similar society at Maentwrog in 1825. He won a prize offered by ' Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion Llundain ' in 1834 for a cywydd on the subject of a decision given by lord Lyndhurst in the Caernarvon assize of 1832. His home was Garth Gwyn, in the parish of Maentwrog; he died at Tŷ Nant in the same parish on 11 August 1836, being buried in the burial ground attached to the Scotch
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (c. 1625 - 1684), antiquary Llanddyfnan, and daughter of William Jones of Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth. That he was a competent and reliable antiquary is proved by such of his work as has survived, i.e. 'Historia Bellomarisci,' 1669, published as a supplement to the revised edition of Fenton's Tours in Wales (Archæologia Cambrensis, Supplement, 1917); ' History of the Bulkeley Family ' (1673-4), first published in Transactions of the Anglesey
WINFIELD, HERBERT BENJAMIN (1879 - 1919), Wales and Cardiff Rugby full-back when he played his last game for Wales, against Australia, in 1909, he had been ' capped ' fifteen times. He also captained the Cardiff XV for some time. Winfield was also a first-class golfer, and played in the final of the Welsh Golfing Union Championship in 1912. When war broke out in 1914, Winfield was commissioned in the Cardiff City Battalion with which he went to France. He and Gwyn Nicholls
WYNN family Bodewryd, the house in Bodewryd from his kinsman, William ap Llewelyn ap Tudur ap William, or William Llechog, and gave it, in 1534, as an inheritance to his son Hugh Gwyn and the heirs of his body by his wife, Ellen, daughter of Hugh Conway of Bryneuryn. Hugh Gwyn's mother was Angharad, daughter of David ab Evan ap David, heiress of Plas y Brain, in the parish of Llanbedr. After transferring Bodewryd to
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, This family was a younger branch of the Wynn family of Gwydir, founded through the marriage of Griffith Wynn (son of John Wynn ap Meredydd, died 1559, and uncle of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir) with the heiress of Robert Salusbury of Berth-ddu. OWEN GWYNN (GWYNNE, GWYN or WYN) (died 1633), Master of S. John's, Cambridge Education, was the third son of this Griffith Wynn. Nominated in 1584 to one of
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, Dolau Gwyn, which is just off the road leading from Towyn to Abergynolwyn. LEWIS GWYN (died 1630) of Dolau Gwyn, who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1617, was the second son of John Wynn ab Humphrey (above). By his first wife, Jane, daughter of Hugh Nanney, of Nannau, Lewis Gwyn had two daughters, Gwen (below) and Elizabeth, who married Edward (?) Nanney, of Nannau. By his second wife, Annes
WYNNE, OWEN (1652 - ?), civil servant The second son of Hugh Gwyn (alias Hugh ap John Owen) of Gwaenfynydd, Llechylched, Anglesey, who claimed descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, the 12th century lord of Llifon, and of Elin, daughter of Robert ap John ap William of Tre'rddolphin. He entered Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 10 July) in 1668, and graduated B.A. in 1672. At some subsequent date he qualified as a doctor of laws, and

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