Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM (Bardd Du Eryri; 1755 - 1828), poet and chair manufacturer of 1771. It was through their influence that Abraham began to take an interest in Welsh prosody. He had a copy of Siôn Rhydderch's grammar which he used to lend to other boys in the school. He went to work at the Penrhyn quarry, and Gutyn Peris lodged in his house at Gwaun-y-gwiail, Llanllechid. The two friends quarrelled and in 1791 we find Gutyn sending him a cywydd seeking a reconciliation; in
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, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet
WILLIAMS, PETER BAILEY (1763 - 1836), cleric and writer - often enough under pseudonyms such as 'Pant' and 'Peris.' In addition to helping document-hunters like Nicholas Carlisle and William Cathrall, he also published The Tourist's Guide to the County of Caernarvon, 1821, while shorter articles written by him were published in Gwyneddion, 1832 (on the history of Anglesey), and in the Cymmrodorion Transactions, 1843 (on the Welsh monasteries and abbeys). He
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Peris; 1769 - 1847), poet o Eifion who won the medal on that occasion. In 1813 Gwilym Peris published his poetical works in a book called Awengerdd Peris, which includes all the awdlau mentioned above. Later, he went to live at Llandygài, where he came into close contact with Gutyn Peris. A of greeting by Gutyn to Gwilym is included in the Awengerdd, and Gwilym's in reply is the most interesting piece he ever wrote. In it
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1738 - 1817) Llandygái, antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry men, and built up a Corph o Dduwinyddiaeth, that was published at Bangor in 1831; the author of a long obituary appreciation of the father in the Gwyliedydd for 1828, in the form of a letter to Gutyn Peris, was his son Edmund Williams.

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