Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1854 - 1933), schoolmaster, geologist, and antiquary Born 16 December 1854, at Hên Dŷ Capel, Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog (not at Tanygrisiau as stated by J. Lloyd Williams), one of the five children of John Williams, Rhiwbryfdir (brother to Griffith Williams, 1824 - 1881), and his wife. After leaving school G. J. Williams worked as a quarryman in Chwarel Holland (part of the Oakeley quarry), Blaenau Ffestiniog. Afterwards he went to Bangor
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, GRIFFITH VAUGHAN (1940 - 2010), journalist and gay activist Griff Vaughan Williams was born on 9 November 1940 in Bangor, Gwynedd, the only child of Griffith Williams (b. 1910), and his wife Katherine (née Turner, 1910-1968). He was educated at Friars grammar school in Bangor before studying journalism in Cardiff, and then worked for a number of magazines and provincial newspapers around the country until he joined the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
WILLIAMS, GWLADYS MARION GRIFFITH - see EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Hywel Cernyw; 1843 - 1937), Baptist minister, writer, and poet Wales and Monmouth, 1892-3. In 1932 the University of Wales honoured him with the degree of D.D. He wrote a large number of hymns. He was for a time editor of Seren Gomer, the Greal, and Yr Athraw. His publications include Bannau Ffydd, 1900; Yr Arweinydd Dwyfol, Cofiant Dr. Hugh Jones, 1884; Nodiadau ar Epistolau Ioan a Judas, 1874; Esboniad ar yr Efengyl yn ol Ioan, 1899-1900 (two volumes produced
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
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator . (A John Williams, who may be the brother referred to above, was admitted in 1823.) Williams was distantly related to William Jones, the town clerk of Carmarthen, and it was this which induced him to settle there, although they did not go into partnership as had been expected. He practised at Carmarthen from 1822 to 1842, and then at Carmarthen and other places in the neighbourhood until his death
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author Born in Llanengan, Llŷn peninsula, in 1721 or 1722 (he was christened 18 January 1721/2), the son of William Williams (or ' Jones ') and Catherine his wife - William Morris suggests (Morris Letters, i, 308) that he was connected with the Bodvel family, but Foster enters 'pleb.' against his father's name. According to a letter which he wrote to Richard Morris in 1764, he was educated at Friars
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Cadfan; 1807? - 1870), printer and journalist Born at Bryn-crug, near Towyn, Merionethshire. He served his apprenticeship with Richard Jones, the Dolgelley printer. He became known as a writer of ability and a staunch advocate and defender of the Church, and in January 1848, he started to edit and print a Church paper called Y Cymro, published at first in Bangor. In July 1849, he handed over the proprietorship to a Mr. Shone, but continued
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar , and took honours in Welsh in 1906. Session 1906-07 he spent as Assistant to John Morris Jones in the Welsh Department and working for his M.A. degree. He was appointed Assistant Lecturer in 1907. In 1920 he was given a personal chair, with the title of Professor of Welsh Literature. On the death of John Morris-Jones in 1929 the personal chair was discontinued, and Ifor Williams became Professor of
WILLIAMS, JAC LEWIS (1918 - 1977), educationalist, author to the Faculty of Education in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and some four years later, in 1960, he succeeded Professor Idwal Jones as Professor and Dean of the Faculty. In 1976 he became Vice-Principal of the college. He became a national figure after being appointed to the chair of education in Aberystwyth. Dr W. Gareth Evans said of him: 'Never before had a Professor of Education
WILLIAMS, JAMES (1812 - 1893) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary 1882; for details of his work there and the difficulties he encountered, see J. H. Morris's book, mentioned below. From 1869 on, he lived at Chester, where he died 1 September 1893; he had married Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Richard Jones, 1784 - 1840, of Bala, and was buried in her grave in Llanycil churchyard.

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