Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, LLYWELYN (1911 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and politician social freedom. Olwen Williams, former headmistress of the Welsh school at Llanelli, was Llywelyn's sister. The children were heavily influenced by the society at Capel Als (Congl.) and undoubtedly the fine preaching of the minister, Daniel John Davies, led two of them into the ministry. Llywelyn was educated at Stebonheath primary school and the boys' grammar school Llanelli. He went to the University
WILLIAMS, LUCY GWENDOLEN (1870 - 1955), sculptress Born in 1870 at New Ferry, near Liverpool, daughter of Henry Lewis Williams, priest, and Caroline Sarah (née Lee), his wife. Her father was the son of John Williams, Highfield Hall, Northop, Flintshire, but Gwendolen Williams can hardly be said to be Welsh from the point of view of her professional dedication. She studied art under Alfred Drury at Wimbledon Art College before proceeding to the
WILLIAMS, MARGARET LINDSAY (1888 - 1960), artist members of the royal family. Margaret Lindsay Williams worked for most of her life in London, but she was deeply committed to Wales and Welsh art. She was close to leaders of the national revival before World War I, when she portrayed Welsh topics as in her series of watercolours, 'Maidens of Llyn-y-fan'. She enthusiastically supported the National Eisteddfod, and W. Goscombe John was one of her friends
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795? - 1873), musician the famous harpist Parish-Alvars. In the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1838 she was awarded the prize offered by lady Llanover for the best collection of Welsh airs, this being the collection published in 1844 under the title of The Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg. She assisted John Parry (Bardd Alaw) to produce the Welsh Harper, whilst John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) also consulted her
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician published as Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg in 1844, Lady Llanover having secured a dedication of the volume to the young Queen Victoria. Lady Llanover also encouraged her to publish the tunes accompanied by Welsh lyrics, with some assistance from Taliesin Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo') (a friend of Maria Jane's brother William) and John Jones ('Tegid'). The English translations (some by
WILLIAMS, MARY (1883 - 1977), French scholar Mary Williams was born in Aberystwyth on 26 June 1887 and grew up in Tabernacle Chapel. She was the first child of John Williams (born 1827), a Welsh Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Jane Williams (born 1845). She had a younger sister, Jennie Williams (later Ruggles-Gates) (born 1884) and a brother, John Williams (born 1889), who died in childhood. Williams received her early education at
WILLIAMS, MORGAN (1808 - 1883), chartist of five appointed to the National Chartist Association in 1841 and 1842 and attended the convention in London in 1842. At the time of the Newport outbreak in November 1839, he was away purchasing a press for printing the chartist newspaper, Udgorn Cymru, which he published, with David John. He possessed an extensive collection of books, part of which he bequeathed to the Merthyr Tydfil Library. At
WILLIAMS, MOSES (1685 - 1742), cleric and scholar beginning of the Sixteenth Century, 1719; Repertorium Poeticum, 1726; and Orders relating to the Almshouses … of Devynog, 1731. He intended publishing a new edition with additions of The Historie of Cambria (David Powel), an edition of Juvenal's satires, and of Edward James's Llyfr yr Homiliau. He did not achieve his ambition of producing an enlarged edition of John Davies of Mallwyd's dictionary and
WILLIAMS, MOSES (d. 1819), General (but Trinitarian) Baptist minister, and blacksmith wing, and maintaining (as John Richard Jones of Ramoth did) that 'faith' was nothing more than simple belief. In 1797 he was ordained minister of Llandyfân, and in 1798 started another church in Pontbren-araeth in the parish of Llangadog. In the 1799 schism, he and his two churches broke away from the Particular Baptists, although they continued to be Trinitarians; Williams welcomed the advent of the
WILLIAMS, PENRY (1800 - 1885), painter were hung between 1822 and 1869, including portraits of John Gibson (1844) and lady Charlotte Guest (1845). He settled in Rome in 1827, where he became very friendly with John Gibson. He was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1828. Most of his pictures depict Italian views and scenes of Roman life. Some of his pictures are to be found in the National Gallery, the
WILLIAMS, PETER (1723 - 1796), Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator Welsh folk in their study of the Bible. His commentary on John, i, 1, aroused the suspicion that he was inclining to Sabellianism, but it was after his publication of a Welsh edition of John Canne's 'Little Bible' (1790) that the storm broke. He was accused of publishing the Sabellian heresy and at the Llandeilo C.M. Association, 1791, was excommunicated. He spent the last years of his life in bitter
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic (collected by John McIlroy and Sallie Westwood as Border Country: Raymond Williams in Adult Education (1993)) testify to the extent to which he drew on his work as extra-mural educator in the creation of his career-making volume Culture and Society (1958). A dissection of the meaning of 'culture' in English thought since industrialisation, the volume is widely identified as a progenitor for contemporary

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