Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 family Cochwillan, . 1500), soldier and sheriff of Caernarfonshire Military Public and Social Service, Civil Administration Son of Griffith ap Robin. He was a firm supporter of the Tudors. He married Angharad, daughter of Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Einion the Lancastrian defender of Harlech between c. 1460-8. He is said to have brought a troop of horse to support Henry of Richmond at Bosworth, was appointed sheriff for life of
WILLIAMS family Aberpergwm, WILLIAMS (died 1812), who is thought to have been his illegitimate son (or perhaps that of his father of the same name), who launched the family on a more distinguished career. He was interested in literature, and in 1802 corresponded with Southey; but he also maintained the strong Welsh traditions of this family, and the poet Dafydd Nicolas was given a home by him at Aberpergwm for many years. On the
WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM (Bardd Du Eryri; 1755 - 1828), poet and chair manufacturer Born at Cwmglas Mawr, Llanberis. His father, Thomas Williams, sent him for a time to the school kept by John Morgan (1743 - 1801), curate of Llanberis; Dafydd Ddu Eryri was there at the same time. Previous to that there had been two other curates at Llanberis in Abraham Williams's boyhood; they were, David Ellis who was there from 1764 to 1767, and Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) who was there for part
WILLIAMS, DAFYDD RHYS (Index; 1851 - 1931), author and journalist
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born at Is-coed, Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, son of William Dafydd. Richard William Dafydd, the exhorter, was his brother. As a young man he came to Glamorgan to work for Christopher Bassett, junior of Aberthaw, and began to exhort in the Methodist societies c. 1742. It is not certain whether he was the David Williams who was appointed a ' private exhorter ' at the Watford Association, 1743
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, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian ), from the work of which came the Welsh Language Act of 1967 with its principle of equal validity for the use of English and Welsh in Wales. He was also a member for some years of the Welsh Forms Panel, which stemmed from the passing of the act. He greatly admired 'Dafydd' Hughes Parry and agreed to follow him as chairman of the Pantyfedwen Trust in Aberystwyth (from 1973 to 1979). The government in
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 ., October 1919). He contributed articles to Cymru (O.M.E.) and Y Geninen, and published his father's poetical works, edited by Dafydd Morganwg, 1903, as Gwaith Barddonol Alaw Goch. He married, 1863, Emma E. (died 12 August 1922), daughter of William Williams of Aberpergwm, and had three sons and a daughter.
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator wife died at Llanfihangel Abercywyn on 5 August 1861, and two months later, on 9 October 1861, he married (at Buckingham Baptist chapel, Clifton) Elizabeth Anthony of Llan-saint, a woman thirty-nine years his junior. He is then described as living at Ferryside. Their first child was born on 30 July 1862 and died in infancy, as did their second son in the following year. The third son, Hugh Dafydd
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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