Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir ROGER (1540? - 1595), soldier and author Williams, a member of the family of Penrhos, Monmouth (this family bore, later, the surname Addams-Williams - see under Williams, Sir Trevor); and (3) Sir Roger Williams (1540? - 1595), soldier and author; it is with him that this short note will be concerned. Like his namesake, the second Roger Williams named above, Sir Roger Williams was a member of the family of Penrhos, being the son of Thomas
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (Hwfa Môn; 1823 - 1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales Born at Pen y Graig, Trefdraeth, Anglesey, in March 1823. When he was 5 years of age the family went to live at Rhos-tre-Hwfa, near Llangefni, where he was brought up as a Calvinistic Methodist until he was 14. He was apprenticed to John Evans, a Llangefni carpenter, and later worked at his trade at Bangor, Deiniolen, Port Dinorwic, and other places. In 1847 he returned to Anglesey and shortly
WILLIAMS, SAMUEL (c. 1660 - c. 1722), cleric and author its chapels of ease, Capel Crist and Llanina. He was given the living of Llandyfrïog in 1697 and became rector of Llangynllo, Cardiganshire in 1710. The living of Llandyfrïog was given to Theophilus Evans in 1722; thus Samuel Williams's death could not have occurred later than that year. His work proves that by 1696 he was an experienced copyist. Some of the following manuscripts are either wholly
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN JOSEPH (1896 - 1992), Welsh scholar editor for the popular Y Geiriadur Mawr (H. Meurig Evans and W.O. Thomas, 1958). He supported all aspects of Welsh life in Swansea, especially Ty'r Cymry and the Welsh Drama Society for which he wrote his 'Y dyn hysbys' in 1935. He was a prominent supporter of the National Eisteddfod, serving as a member of the Council for many years and also as its Chairman, and as a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. He
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Capelulo; c.1782 - 1855), reformed drunkard, itinerant bookseller, 'character' and ballads, almanacks and books. Most of what is known of 'Capelulo' is found in his autobiography (Hanes bywyd Thomas Williams, yr hwn a adwaenid wrth yr enw Thomas Capelulo. A ysgrifenwyd o'i enau ef ei hun) published by John Jones in 1854. This is a literary version of what the author said 'in his own words' and its honesty is a remarkable feature. Robert Owen Hughes 'Elfyn' based his memoir on
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (1658 - 1726), cleric and translator son of the Rev. William Williams and Elizabeth his wife; born at Eglwysbach, Denbighshire, 1658. He matriculated at Oxford from Jesus College, 3 April 1674, took his B.A. in 1677 and his M.A. in 1680. It is thought that he succeeded his father as rector of S. George, near Abergele, in 1684; possibly he was the Thomas Williams who was rector of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog from 1687 to 1702. He was
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Soranus; 1818 - 1865), physician and scientist ), clergyman Religion Brother of Thomas Williams. The first incumbent of the Welsh church established in Ely Place, London, in 1843, by the efforts of the second Society of Cymmrodorion, but later emigrated to the U.S.A., and died in New York in 1852.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Clwydfro; 1821 - 1855), poet
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (fl. end of the 18th century), attorney, outstanding figure in the copper industry As son (born 13 May 1737) of Owen Williams of Cefn Coch in Llansadwrn, who owned also Tregarnedd and Treffos, and his wife, the daughter of Hendre Hywel by Llangefni, it was comparatively easy for Thomas Williams to become intimate with the great men of Anglesey; it was he who straightened out the tangled estate of Bodior; he spent years in getting reason out of the stubborn people at Plas Coch
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Eos Gwynfa, Eos y Mynydd; c. 1769 - 1848), poet
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Twm Pedrog; 1774 - 1814), poet
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Brynfab; 1848 - 1927), littérateur and farmer Born 8 September 1848 at Fforch Aman, a farm in Cwmaman, Aberdare, son of Thomas and Gwenllian Williams. When he was very young, the family moved to Fforch, Treorchy, where he received what little education he ever had. At the age of 25 he settled at Hendre, in the parish of Eglwysilan, and was a farmer there for more than fifty years. On his retirement he went to live at Hendre Wen, S. Athan. He

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