Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1788 - 1865), Member of Parliament pamphlets: A Letter to Lord John Russell on the Report of the Commissioners (answered by Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) in his A Vindication of the Education and Moral Condition of Wales) and a Second Letter on the present defective state of Education in Wales. He presided at the meeting held at the Freemasons' Tavern, London, 1 December 1863, to further university education in Wales, and promised a gift of
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Caledfryn; 1801 - 1869), Congregational minister, poet, and critic Caledfryn (a further volume of verse), 1856. He edited Gardd Eifion, the works of Robert ap Gwilym Ddu in 1841, and Eos Gwynedd, the works of John Thomas, Pentrefoelas (1742-1818), in 1845, and a collection of hymns in 1860. He contributed essays on Robert ap Gwilym Ddu and Dewi Wyn o Eifion to Y Drysorfa in 1852 and 1853. He edited many periodicals, including Y Sylwedydd, (1831), Tywysog Cymru (1832-3
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1883 - 1954), quarryman, choir conductor, soloist and cerdd dant adjudicator resources of the church to present cantatas, the operetta Esther and the opera Blodwen. The augmented Blodwen company visited 14 areas in Gwynedd between 1945 and 1947. But the choir which made his name best known as a director and conductor was Tanygrisiau children's choir which won first prize in the chief children's choir competition at the national eisteddfod several times - Bangor 1931, Aberavon 1932
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor re-issued as Tudor Gwynedd 2 years later. The Calendar reveals Ogwen Williams at his best as historian and archivist. He published several articles after the Calendar, among them ' The survival of the Welsh language, 1536-1642 ' (Welsh History Review, 2, 1964) and ' The social order in Tudor Wales ' (Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1967) but as his horizons broadened and he
WYNN family Cesail Gyfarch, Penmorfa This family numbered some well-known men among its members and was connected by marriage with many other influential North Wales families. To it belonged MEREDYDD ab EVAN (died 1525), of Gwydir, descended from Owain Gwynedd; he married Margaret, daughter of Morris ap John ap Meredydd, of Clenennau, Penmorfa, and by her (she was his third wife), was the father of HUMPHREY WYNN of Cesail Gyfarch
WYNN family Gwydir, The Wynn family of Gwydir belonged to a stock which was engaged during the 14th and 15th cents, in establishing the nuclei of small estates in the free townships of Penyfed and Pennant in Eifionydd. About the beginning of the 14th century, Dafydd ap Gruffydd of Nantconwy (claiming descent from Owain Gwynedd) married Eva, daughter and heiress of Gruffydd Fychan, one of the coheirs of ' Gwely
WYNN family Wynnstay, the 'Prince of Wales' on chairing day. He was accepted as a member of the Gorsedd of Bards under the name ' Eryr eryrod Eryri ', the family motto which confirmed the eagles of Owain Gwynedd on his coat of arms. He was president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and such was his interest in the Welsh School at Ashford that a special memorial service was held for him in Ashford parish church
WYNNE family Peniarth, to trusted scholars, whilst he must also have been very busy answering inquiries from a host of searchers throughout Britain. A most valuable feature of his work were notes which he supplied to S. R. Meyrick's edition of Lewis Dwnn's Heraldic Visitations (1846) and to Edward Breese's Kalendars of Gwynedd (1873). Others to whom he gave valued assistance were Sir Henry Ellis, editor of The Record of

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