Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAM ALAW (fl. c. 1535), poet Among his few extant poems there is an elegy on the death of Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Hywel (died 1534) of Moelyrch recorded in the manuscript of cywyddau compiled at Llywelyn's home (Peniarth MS 103: Llyfr Moelyrch (17)). He was one of the poets who wrote an elegy on the death of Rhys Llwyd ab Einion Fychan of Gydros, and Angharad his wife (NLW MS 3051D (128)). He also addressed a soliciting poem to
WILLIAMS, DAFYDD RHYS (Index; 1851 - 1931), author and journalist Born 8 May 1851 at Tai Hywel o'r Llwyn, Cefn Coed y Cymer, Brecknock., the son of a cattle drover. He began to work underground when he was 13 years old. He won prizes at eisteddfodau - for a drama at Aberdare, a pryddest at Treherbert, a poem at Jewin chapel (London) eisteddfod, and afterwards at national eisteddfodau held at Merthyr Tydfil and Denbigh. By this time he was working in London
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister Born January 1796 in the parish of Llanwnnen, Cardiganshire. He attended the chapel at Aberduar where his step-father, David Davies, ministered. After courses at the Castell-hywel grammar school and Bristol Academy he had charge for a short time of the preparatory school for preachers associated with the Tabernacle, Carmarthen; it was said that he knew Latin and Greek as well as he knew Welsh and
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Hywel Cernyw; 1843 - 1937), Baptist minister, writer, and poet
WILLIAMS, MOSES (1685 - 1742), cleric and scholar the Book of Common Prayer in 1718, and a second impression of both in 1727, and in 1730 edited Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae Ecclesiasticae & Civiles Hoeli Boni et aliorum Walliae Princium … Notis & Glossaris illustravit Gulielmus Wottonus. He edited and published William Baxter of Llanllugan's Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, 1711; Reliquiae Baxterianae, 1726, and a
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN JOSEPH (1896 - 1992), Welsh scholar had wide scholarly interests but his most important contributions were as one of the pioneers of modern studies of medieval Welsh law (the Law of Hywel Dda) - his edition, jointly with J. Enoch Powell, Llyfr Blegywryd, appeared in 1942, 1961 - and as the editor of number of Medieval Welsh prose texts, Ffordd y Brawd Odrig, 1929, and the Welsh translations of Old French Charlemagne epics, Ystoria de
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778 - 1835), poet a youth. When he was about 27 years of age he went to London where, however, he only stayed some six months. On his return he was employed by Rhys, son of Hywel Rhys, and it may be inferred that it was the teaching which he was given by, his master which enabled him to write, in co-operation with John Jenkins (1779 - 1853) of Hengoed, the first version of Y Parthsyllydd, 1815-6. Ioan Emlyn in his
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, WILLIAM (Myfyr Wyn; 1849 - 1900), blacksmith, poet and local historian blacksmith in the smithy of the Sirhowy iron-works, where he also moved among several local poets, such as Joseph Bevan (Gwentydd), and Ezechiel Davies (Gwentwyson); but his chief teacher in the art of poetry was Evan Powell (Ap Hywel). Towards the middle of his life he moved to Glamorgan, and pursued his trade at Porth, and elsewhere, and finally at Aberdare. His health weakened, and in his latter years
WOTTON, WILLIAM (1666 - 1727), cleric and scholar of Welsh that he has already taken in hand the transcription of the Laws of Hywel Dda.' Wotton did not live to see his work on the laws in print, but it was published in 1730 by his son-in-law, under the editorship of Moses Williams, as Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (etc.), comprising the Welsh text, a Latin translation, and notes; this was the first occasion on which the laws
WYNN family Gwydir, Wyrion Gruffydd ' in Penyfed. The descendants of this union are found at Gesail Gyfarch, Ystumcegid, Clenennau, and Brynkir. During the revolt of Owain Glyndwr, Ieuan ap Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd ap Gruffydd of Cefn-y-fan (later called Ystumcegid) and Gesail Gyfarch supported the crown and died in 1403 while defending Caernarvon castle against Glyndwr's forces; his brother, Robert, was one of Glyndwr

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