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  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (Siôn Singer; c. 1750 - 1807), musician and Baptist minister
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (1757 - 1810), barrister Born at Job's Well in Carmarthen town, 12 September 1757, the son of Thomas Williams. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1773, but graduated (1776) from Wadham College, of which in 1780 he was elected a Fellow. In 1784 he was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple and had a most successful career as counsel. But he was also interested in the history of the law : he was one of the joint editors
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (1754 - 1828), Methodist cleric
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (fl. 1739-1779), Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer Harris was godfather to John Williams's son, but in 1750 the Erwood family, acting under the influence of Thomas James, deserted Harris and by 1751 had joined Thomas Bowen's independent party. John Williams is believed to have been the author of a little collection of hymns published at Brecon in 1779, Ychydig Hymnau: O waith John Williams o Sir Frecheiniog. The collection comprises four very mediocre
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (1747 - 1831), Methodist cleric
  • WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1926), baronet, Court physician, principal founder of the National Library of Wales 1894; he was made a K.C.V.O. in 1902, and G.C.V.O. in 1911; he was also awarded honorary doctorates (LL.D. - by the Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, and D.Sc. - by the University of Wales in 1905). Sir John Williams was responsible, in part, for the inauguration of the ' Record Series ' published by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion. In 1903 he decided to return to Wales (to Plas
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Mai; 1823 - 1887), poet he had six children. He died 14 October 1887, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard. A selection of his sermons was included in the published volume of his works edited by John Lloyd Pierce.
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (1833 - 1872), antiquary and lawyer Born 7 December 1833, eldest son of John Williams of Trosyrafon, perpetual curate of Llanfaes, Llangoed, and Penmon. He became a solicitor at Beaumaris in partnership with his brother, and also acted as agent for the Carreg-lwyd estate. He was a diligent antiquary, of some standing, his principal interest being in the history of the old county families of Anglesey. Among his published works are
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (1825 - 1904), cleric and author
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (RUFUS) (Rufus; 1833 - 1877), Baptist minister and author Born at Merthyr Tydfil, 5 May 1833, son of William and Hannah Williams, members at Abercannaid, where he himself was baptized in 1848. He was employed as a youth at the Pentre-bach ironworks, but started to preach 24 April 1850, and in January 1855, after a two years' course of training at a school kept at Merthyr Tydfil by Thomas Davies (1812 - 1895), he was admitted to Pontypool College. In
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (J.W. Llundain; 1872 - 1944), slate merchant Born in Tŷ Capel Rhostryfan, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire, 22 September 1872, the eldest of the seven children of John Williams, slate-quarryman, and Catherine his wife, daughter of Robert and Jane Jones, Llandwrog. One of his brothers was William Gilbert Williams. John was educated in Rhostryfan Board School and began working in Braich quarry in July 1885 where he remained for about five years when
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN - see PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM