Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, JOHN (Eos Gwynedd; 1742 - 1818), poet the title of Eos Gwynedd. He wrote carols and hymns. He had a bardic controversy with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) on the subject of baptism. He died 12 September 1818.
TWM CARNABWTH - see REES, THOMAS
TWM CHWARAE TEG - see WILLIAMS, THOMAS
TWM O'R NANT - see EDWARDS, THOMAS
TWM PEDROG - see WILLIAMS, THOMAS
TWM SBAEN - see JONES, THOMAS
TWM SHÔN CATI - see JONES, THOMAS
TWM SIÔN CATI - see JONES, THOMAS
WILLIAM(S), ROBERT (1744 - 1815), poet, and farmer Day of Judgement, which his master Rolant Huw thought not unworthy of comparison with the better-known cywyddau of Goronwy Owen and William Wynn (of Llangynhafal) on the same subject. He also wrote a to Dafydd Ionawr (David Richards), and exchanged englynion with Twm o'r Nant (Thomas Edwards). But the bulk of his work consists of elegies of purely local interest, carols, and 'club songs' - there is
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, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar books such as Y Gwyddoniadur, Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymru; Cannwyll y Cymry, Difyr-Gampau Twm Shon Cati and volumes that had been bound from issues of Cennad Hedd and Diwygiwr. His old teacher S.M. Powell maintained that the seed of the scholar that emerged later was planted during that year, when he was free of the burden of formal education. In 1911 he went to the University College of Wales
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Cadfan; 1807? - 1870), printer and journalist NLW MS 4511C. He was also a churchwarden of the Welsh church in London for many years. In 1870 he was chosen as the first editor of a Welsh church paper, Y Dywysogaeth, published at Rhyl, Flintshire, but he died 11 July 1870 at the age of 63 years; he was buried in Rhyl churchyard. Cadfan was the author of Caban F'Ewyrth Twm, a Welsh translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, illustrated by Cruickshank and

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