Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet separated as those of Caehywel, Salop; Penmynydd, Anglesey; Madryn and Bodwrda, Llŷn; Golden Grove and Abermarlais in the vale of Towy; and Aberbrân, Brecknock. He also sang the praises of a number of clergymen, among them those of Wiliam Hughes, bishop of St Asaph, and Richard Davies, bishop of S. Davids, whose palace at Abergwili he said he had visited. In his elegy on his friend Owain ap Gwilym, the
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Descended from the same stock as Griffith of Penrhyn, the founder of the family was ROBIN AP GRIFFITH (died c.1445) Brother of the Gwilym ap Griffith who established the Penrhyn fortunes on a firm foundation. Robin may have been settled in Bodfeio as early as 1389. He married (1) Angharad, daughter of Rhys ap Griffith and (2) Lowry, daughter of Grono ap Ifan. He supported Owain Glyndwr in the
WILLIAMS family Gwernyfed, There were two Williams families at that place: (1) The name is first linked with Gwernyfed in the person of Sir DAVID WILLIAMS (1536? - 1613), judge, the youngest son of Gwilym ap John Vychan, of Blaen Newydd (= Blaen Nedd ?), Ystradfellte, who was the cousin of Sir John Price of Brecon. David Williams was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1576. His career, which is given in the D.N.B
WILLIAMS family Marl, died in September 1760, and early in 1761 Anne married his cousin, Terence Prendergast. This marriage, too, ended disastrously; Park and Llwyn were sold, and Anne, accompanied by William Roberts, went to live at Pant Glas, her grandmother's old home, leaving Marl to her husband. She died in poverty, 15 December 1770, at Nant Gwilym, Bodfari, and was buried in Llan-rhos church. William Roberts was
WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM (Bardd Du Eryri; 1755 - 1828), poet and chair manufacturer this he has the line ' you taught me grammar,' which suggests that he was taught by Abraham. In another addressed to Gwilym Peris Gutyn says that Abraham Williams taught both of them. In 1793 Williams sailed for America, landing at Philadelphia, from which he soon made his way to New York, where his wife died of yellow fever. He married a second time, and in 1797 moved to Essex County, New Jersey
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Alaw Goch; 1809 - 1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr at Ynyscynon, Aberdare, was the resort of poets and literary writers. Here their son, judge Gwilym Williams, was born. Alaw Goch died at Bridgend, 28 February 1863, and was buried in the Aberdare cemetery.
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Alexandra Constance Wills, the daughter of Walter Robert Wills, Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1945-46. They had three children: Gwilym Rees, Joan Elizabeth, and Morgan Rees. Lord Ogmore died at the Westminster Hospital on 30 August 1976; the funeral was held on 3 September at the United Reform Church, Allen Street, London, and, later on the same day, at the Mid-Glamorgan Crematorium, Coychurch. Constance, Lady
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Williams, became a prominent figure in the literary life of the succeeding period. Iolo published but little of his work although he did include many of his forgeries (or inventions) in Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, 1789, The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 1801, 1807, and in Y Greal, 1805-7. He published an elegy, 1772, upon his poetic teacher, Lewis Hopkin, under the title of Dagrau yr Awen, and two
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar prominent people like W. Llewelyn Williams who did not wish to hear the truth about the forgeries of Iolo Morganwg. The public bickering caused the organisers of the national eisteddfod at Caernarfon in 1921 to set one particular aspect of Iolo's Work, namely his connection with the sixteen cywyddau that were contained in the Appendix to Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym (1789), as the main essay subject
WILLIAMS, GWILYM (1839 - 1906), judge gatherings, addressed meetings of Cymmrodorion societies, and delivered lectures (in Welsh and English) to audiences in the industrial districts of South Wales. He was president and adjudicator at the Pontypridd national eisteddfod in 1893 and intervened to order Gwilym Cowlyd off the stage for refusing to agree with the two other adjudicators in deciding the winner of the chair for the best awdl (Gen
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.)
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar limited edition of 200 copies, did not have the same aim. But he returned to his original purpose with Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr (1914), produced in collaboration with Thomas Roberts. He had long been interested in Dafydd ap Gwilym, having discussed his floruit in two articles in Y Drysorfa in 1909. This selection of Dafydd's poems was the first attempt to restore the text along scholarly

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