Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, THOMAS RHONDDA (1860 - 1945), Congregational minister Born at Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, 19 June, 1860, one of three sons of Thomas Williams, a Calvinistic Methodist minister, who entered the ministry, two of them in the Congregational denomination and the other in his father's Connexion. He was admitted, as Thomas Rees Williams, to the Carmarthen Presbyterian College in 1877. He held pastorates at Bethania, Dowlais (1880), Gnoll Road, Neath (1884
WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR (c. 1623 - 1692) Llangibby, politician a crippling fine, which ended his political career. On his death in 1692, the title (and the representation of Monmouthshire from 1698-1708) passed successively to his two surviving sons by his wife Elizabeth, heiress of Thomas Morgan of Machen (his fellow-member for the county), but it lapsed on the death of his great-nephew, Sir Leonard Williams, in 1758; the estates passed by marriage to the
WILLIAMS, WALDO GORONWY (1904 - 1971), poet and pacifist schools in Kimbolton and Lyneham between 1945 and 1948. He returned to Wales in 1949, to a supply post in Builth Wells; within a year he was back in Pembrokeshire, and it was there that he would remain, teaching in schools and taking extramural classes. He died in St Thomas Hospital, Haverfordwest, on 20 May 1971, having spent months there as a result of a serious stroke. Personal suffering no doubt
WILLIAMS, WATKIN HEZEKIAH (Watcyn Wyn; 1844 - 1905), schoolmaster, poet, and preacher collaboration with Elwyn Thomas, two novels. He was a frequent contributor to Welsh periodicals and was himself, from 1890, co-editor of one of them (Y Diwygiwr). A small volume of his memoirs was published posthumously. His prose is racy and unaffected, but he made no great effort to develop a literary style. He was a prominent popular lecturer and preacher (he had been ordained in 1894). He had endured poor
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1747 - 1812), Evangelical cleric Judges being omitted altogether. This caused much concern to Thomas Charles (of Bala) and the other sponsors of this issue of the Welsh Bible, but the situation was saved by the energy and scholarship of William Williams. He died 13 October 1812; there is a mural commemorative tablet in Waterbeach church.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (fl. 1648-1677), author of Poetical Piety Little is known of this man beyond what he says himself in the dedication to Sir Thomas Pryse, Gogerddan, Cardiganshire, of his book Poetical Piety: or Poetry made Pious …, printed for the author 'at the White Swan in Black-Fryers near the King's Printing-house,' London, 1677. He says that he was then 'near Thirty' years of age, that he had been born in the vicinity of Gogerddan, and that he knew
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1748 - 1820), cleric, a pioneer of the Sunday school movement in Wales son of Rhys and Ann Williams, Glanwenlais, Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire. Ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids, 1 September 1771, and priest, 14 August 1774, he was curate at Carmarthen; he is, however, better known as curate of S. Gennys, Cornwall. He corresponded with Thomas Charles (of Bala) on the subject of education in Wales. He is given credit for establishing a Sunday school in the
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1788 - 1865), Member of Parliament Born 12 February 1788 at Tredarren, in the parish of Llanpumpsaint, Carmarthenshire, the fourth son of Thomas Williams and Esther Phillips. He was educated only in the school held in the parish church, where David Owen (Brutus,) was a contemporary. After apprenticeship to a shopkeeper in Carmarthen he obtained, in 1804, a post in a wholesale cotton warehouse in Bread Street in the city of London
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Ap Caledfryn; 1837 - 1915), portrait painter his friends were Dr. Joseph Parry, T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn), and Owen Morgan (Morien). Ap Caledfryn painted landscapes in water-colour, but is better known for his portraits in oils, many of which are to be found in private hands in South Wales. Two portraits of his father are to be found, at Groes-wen, Caerphilly, and the Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans. He died at Groes-wen in 1915, and was
WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM (1634 - 1700), lawyer and politician Parliament of 1681. In 1684, his enemy, George Jeffreys, instigated an action against him for having, as speaker, authorised, in 1680, the publication of Thomas Dangerfield's libellous Narrative, and in 1686 he was fined £10,000 by the Court of King's Bench. He thereupon changed sides, made his peace with James II, and was appointed solicitor-general, and knighted in 1687. He incurred great odium by
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1738 - 1817) Llandygái, antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry retirement gave him leisure to indulge his literary tastes: in 1802 was published, at Oxford, his Observations on the Snowdon Mountains, which contains interesting notes on local customs and folk-lore, including (as was natural) a long chapter on the descent of the Penrhyn family (the author of this part of the work was John Thomas, sometime of Beaumaris, 1736 - 1769); five years after his death was
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Peris; 1769 - 1847), poet married man, a slate quarryman, born in the parish of Llanberis but now resident at Waunfawr.' He wrote an awdl on ' Providence,' which was the subject prescribed by Humphrey Thomas, brother of Dafydd Ddu Eryri, as a set piece for the poets of Caernarvonshire at their meeting at Bontnewydd, Llanwnda, in 1803. In 1804 he sent an awdl on ' Ynys Prydain ' to the Gwyneddigion eisteddfod, but it was Dewi Wyn

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