Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister of Evan Prichard of Collennau. On the advice of Daniel Rowland, it is said, he was ordained minister at Aberthyn, in the same manner as Morgan John Lewis and Thomas William. That was probably during the Methodist Disruption (1750-62). For all that, he maintained his connection with the Methodists, attended their Associations and societies, and preached to them regularly. At Aberthyn he was troubled
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709 - 1784), Independent minister latter's friendship with John Thomas, the Methodist curate of Gelli-gaer. They refer also to a school opened in the parish under the aegis of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror, and mention that David Williams had ordered some hundreds of Griffith Jones's catechisms and was in correspondence with him - later (1741) a letter written by David Williams appeared in Welch Piety. But by 1740 Williams and Harris
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1779 - 1874), Congregational minister Born 27 January 1779 at Nantydderwen in the parish of Llanwrtyd, Brecknock. He came of a well-known local stock; on his mother's side he was related to the family of John Penry. He was nurtured in a religious home and for a time attended a school kept by the incumbent of Llanwrtyd. He was received into church membership at Llanwrtyd by Isaac Price. After being apprenticed as shoemaker he went to
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister them to seek refuge in Swansea. Joseph Harris (Gomer) gave the family shelter and kept Williams to preach to English congregations at Swansea and to instruct his son John in the classics. He died 10 January 1823. ' P. A. Môn ' composed an elegiac awdl, and Caledfryn elegiac englynion in his memory.
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Alaw Goch; 1809 - 1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr who gave him much assistance. This colliery at Aberaman was generally known as Williams's Pit. Then he sank the Deep Duffryn colliery at Mountain Ash, and, after winning the coal, he sold the colliery to John Nixon for £42,000. With this money he again sank another colliery at Cwmdare in 1853, and, after a further success, he again sold out. In this way he attained great wealth, buying up lands at
WILLIAMS, DAVID DAVID (1862 - 1938), minister (Presb.) and author Presbyterian Church in Wales. He published the following books: Dyfyniadau llên Cymru (1909); Deuddeg o feirdd y Berwyn (1910); Twm o'r Nant (1911); Geirfa Prifeirdd (1911); Dylanwad y Rhufeiniaid ar iaith, gwareiddiad a gwaedoliaeth y Cymry (1912); Hanes mynachdai gogledd Cymru (1914); Cymry enwog cyfnod y Tuduriaid (1914); Addysg Cymru yn y Canol Oesoedd (1914); Hanes dirwest yng Ngwynedd (1921); Thomas
WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1870 - 1951), schoolmaster Born 18 February 1870 in Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, one of the 13 children of Thomas Williams, collier, and his wife. Though he began work as a boy in the mines he showed early ability and in 1882 he won the Gelligaer Scholarship to Lewis' School, Pengam. The register of that school notes Bargod Board School as his previous school and his father's address as Greenfield Terrace, Bargoed. He was
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1950), schoolmaster and author
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer Born at Pen-rhiw, a farmhouse in the parish of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, 26 June 1885, the elder child of John and Sarah (née Morgans) Williams. The family moved to Aber-nant in 1891 and he went to Rhydcymerau school, 1891-98. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a coalminer at Ferndale, Rhondda; Betws, Ammanford and Blaendulais. He resumed his education in 1906 at Stephens' School, Llanybydder. After
WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Born 3 February 1870 at Tal-y-bont, in the Vale of Conwy, where his father John Williams was Calvinistic Methodist minister. The family moved to Old Colwyn in 1882. Llewelyn Williams was educated at the Tal-y-bont primary school and at Old Colwyn (where he was a contemporary of Thomas Gwynn Jones) and at a private residential school at Llandudno. In 1885 he was apprenticed in a chemist's shop in
WILLIAMS, DAVID MATTHEW (Ieuan Griffiths; 1900 - 1970), scientist, dramatist and inspector of schools Born 3 May 1900 in Cellan, Cardiganshire, son of John Williams and Ann (née Griffiths), and younger brother of Griffith John Williams. He left Cellan elementary school for Tregaron County School in 1911. In the Higher Certificate examination in 1918 he obtained the highest marks of all candidates in Wales in chemistry, for which his school was awarded special recognition. From Tregaron he
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian ), Cilfowyr, John Gomer Lewis (1844 - 1914), and David Price (1865 - 1931), both of Swansea, and Anthony Williams (1845 - 1913), Ystrad Rhondda; and also Rhys Jones Lloyd (1827 - 1904), the son of Bronwydd mansion, Llangynllo, the rector of Troed-yr-aur, and his troubled Independent neighbour Thomas Cynfelyn Benjamin (1850 - 1925), Pen-y-graig, upon whose grave in Llethr-ddu cemetery Trealaw D.P.W. played a

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