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WILLIAMS, ALICE HELENA ALEXANDRA (ALYS MEIRION; 1863 - 1957), writer, artist, and voluntary welfare worker Britannia; the latter, described as a 'patriotic pageant-play' for women and girls, was translated into Welsh by Alice Gray Jones ('Ceridwen Peris'). For her work with the Fund Alice Williams was awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française. Her commitment to providing wider opportunities for women's social, educational, and cultural development remained central to her life. She founded the fourth
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Tom Nefyn; 1895 - 1958), minister (Presb.) and evangelist guidance of R.B. Jones before proceeding to the theological colleges of his denomination at Aberystwyth and Bala. He was ordained in 1925, and that same year he married Ceridwen Roberts Jones of Coed-poeth, and they had 3 children. He received a call to Ebenezer, Tumble, Carmarthenshire, the anthracite coal district where there was much industrial and political unrest in the 1920s. Tom Nefyn spent a

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