Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Y Fonesig ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND (Alys Mallt, Y Fonesig Mallt Williams; 1867 - 1950), author and celtophile Monnington churchyard. He is described in the inscription on his tombstone as Hollgelt ('a complete Celt'). His widow died at the same house on 2 February 1952. They had two sons and one daughter. The elder of the boys Ioan Penry Brychan Robertson, co-operated with his aunt Mallt in the publication of a Welsh birthday book, Llyfr Penblwydd, in 1929. Mallt attended meetings of Welsh and Irish national
WILLIAMS, CHRISTMAS PRICE (1881 - 1965), politician and engineer Born 25 December 1881, the son of Peter Williams and Mary Price his wife, Brymbo Hall, Wrexham, Denbighshire. His father was the managing director of the Brymbo Steel Co. He was educated at Grove Park School, Wrexham, at Mold, and at Victoria University, Manchester, where he graduated B.Sc. (with honours) in science and M.Sc. He earned his living as an engineer at Sheffield, Warrington and South
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1950), schoolmaster and author , such as Cyfres Chwedl a Chân (6 vols.); Llyfrau Ysgrifennu Cymraeg (6 vols.) He also made a comprehensive collection of books for children. He was co-editor of Meirionnydd, a magazine for the Merioneth branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru; founder and editor of Hwyl, a Welsh comic for children. He won several prizes for literary work in the national eisteddfod, and he was a member of the Eisteddfod Council.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor ; furthermore, he prepared Welsh catechisms for their use. He resigned from the Academy in October 1791, and at the end of the same year accepted a call to Carr's Lane, Birmingham, where he began his work at the beginning of 1792. In 1792, also, he became [a co-editor ] of the Evangelical Magazine, and was given the degree of D.D. by Edinburgh University. He was one of the founders of the London Missionary
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1826 - 1886), iron-master was yielding place to steel. He died at his home, Cleveland Lodge, Middlesbrough, 9 June 1886. His second son, ANEURIN WILLIAMS (1859 - 1924), was Liberal Member of Parliament Politics, Government and Political Movements for Plymouth, N.W. Durham, and Consett. He was a well-known publicist and an authority on profit-sharing and co-partnership.
WILLIAMS, ELISEUS (Eifion Wyn; 1867 - 1926), poet His parents came from the Eifionydd countryside, but he himself was born at Portmadoc 2 May 1867 and spent the last thirty years of his life as clerk and accountant in the office of the North Wales Slate Co. in that town. He had been a schoolmaster for a short time - at the Board School, Portmadoc, and at Pentrefoelas. About 1889 he began to preach in Independent chapels but refused all calls to
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher a share, 13 September 1808, in the bank of Messrs. Jones, Davies, and Williams (formerly Jones, Morgan, and Davies) called 'Banc y Llong' ('the Ship Bank') in Bridge Street, Aberystwyth. This partnership also was dissolved in 1815-6, and it is believed that 'Banc y Llong' then ceased to exist, but Messrs. Williams, Davies, and Co. were keeping a bank in the same premises and were represented by
WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN (Baron Williams of Mostyn), (1941 - 2003), lawyer and politician working as a schoolteacher in north Wales, he was admitted to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1965 but did the first part of his pupillage in the Temple before completing it in Swansea, where he remained for thirteen years. He moved to London upon taking silk in 1978, and became a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 1979 he acted for George Deakin, a co-defendant in the Jeremy Thorpe case. Deakin's acquittal
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian Leisiau, and here he talks of politics and society as well as religion. As a young lecturer in Swansea he was a keen member of the Gower Society founded in 1948, and was for some years joint editor of its journal Gower and the official 'historian' of the society, and he helped to co-found (with the historian Sir Frederick Rees) the Glamorgan Historical Society in 1951, becoming joint editor of its
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH VAUGHAN (1940 - 2010), journalist and gay activist and was an important adviser on murders of LGBT people. Bob Hodgson, the co-chair of the Advisory Group, recalled that Griff Williams was: a character, and a gay activist who had an encyclopaedic knowledge of LGBT issues and details of past and current cases. He scoured local papers and visited coroner's courts to discover pieces of information on LGBT cases which had been overlooked or badly
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.) Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff. He was a person of wide culture and interests, and he was prominent in the life of his denomination, being Moderator of the General Assembly (1948) and Moderator of the North Wales Association (1956). He was also chairman both of the Forward Movement and of the Praise Committee of his Connexion. He took a great interest in hymns and hymn tunes, and co-operated with E.T. Davies
WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter company Teliesyn, whose talented director Colin Thomas brought out the best in him. The most memorable was The Dragon has Two Tongues (HTV, 1985), a thirteen-part series on the history of Wales in which the fiery Marxist historian ran rings around his affable Whiggish co-presenter Wynford Vaughan Thomas. Despite, or perhaps because of, his speech impediment, Gwyn's pieces to camera regularly drew

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