Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1807? - 1877), principal of Jesus College, Oxford Born in 1807? christened 22 June 1807, third son of William Williams (1765 - 1847), a Dolgelley man who was for fifty-nine years master of Cowbridge grammar school. From that school, Charles Williams went up to Jesus College in 1823, graduated in 1827 with a 'first' in classics and a 'second' in mathematics, and was Fellow of his college from 1829 till 1845. He received a M.A. degree in 1830, B.D
WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1633 - 1720), benefactor of his native town majority, subject to the condition that he added the name ' Williams ' to his own surname; this was done in 1729 (see Hanbury-Williams, Sir Charles). In his will, he left £4,000 to found a charity school for thirty boys and twenty girls in Caerleon-on-Usk, and to pay for their apprenticing - so far as the balance permitted; the school was built in 1724. Moreover, in a codicil (23 August 1720), he left a
WILLIAMS, Sir CHARLES (d. 1642), politician - see WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR
WILLIAMS, Sir CHARLES HANBURY (1708 - 1759), satirical writer and diplomatist Born 8 December 1708, the fourth son of Major John Hanbury, of Pontypool. He was educated at Eton. He was god-son to Charles Williams of Caerleon, who had fled abroad after killing his cousin, William Morgan of Penrhos, in a duel, and had amassed a great fortune in Smyrna. Charles Williams had been aided in returning to this country by John Hanbury, and by his will, dated 7 August 1717, he left
WILLIAMS, Sir CHARLES JAMES WATKIN (1828 - 1884), Member of Parliament, judge
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity ' Daniel Williams ' who took out a Presbyterian licence in Wrexham in 1672 under the Indulgence of Charles II; for one thing he was in Ireland at that time, and for another Philip Henry does not mention it. It is, of course, possible that Williams took out the licence when he was visiting the town. His biography is given in some detail by Alexander Gordon in the D.N.B., so that in this volume a brief
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1877 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister and college tutor down to the idea of being a professor, such was his craving for the ministry.' As a preacher, in Welsh and in English alike, he had acquired a very high reputation throughout Wales (and among the Welsh congregations in America); competent observers have testified that Thomas Charles Edwards alone in the preceding generation of Welsh preachers resembled him in combining scholarship with intensity of
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709 - 1784), Independent minister ). The church at Watford waned under the strain. Whether David Williams was ever a real Calvinist is open to question (it should be noted that Charles Wesley preached in his chapel in 1740 and 1741), but in any event, he now began (like other early Independent supporters of Methodism) to veer towards Arminianism and Arianism, and fell out even more with his old friends Edmund Jones and Philip David
WILLIAMS, DAVID DAVID (1862 - 1938), minister (Presb.) and author Charles Edwards (1921); Cofiant T. J. Wheldon (1925); Hanes Cyfundeb y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (1927).
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer , Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, the Rajah, decided to hand over the territory to direct British rule. Before the agreement was concluded, questions were asked in the House of Commons about the views of the people of Sarawak. In response, the government persuaded Rees-Williams and L. D. Gammans, the Conservative Member for Hornsey, to visit Sarawak in order to establish if the cession of the territory “was
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), physicist scholarship at the age of 16 to Swansea Technical College, subsequently transferring to University College Swansea when that establishment opened in October 1920. In 1923 he was awarded a first-class degree in physics and in the opinion of the external examiner, Professor Charles Barkla, a Nobel prize winner, 'his papers submitted in the Honours Degree Examination were some of the most remarkable I have
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author about until the Restoration. During this time he visited Ireland on several occasions and, in 1647, was appointed rector of Rathfarnham. In 1661 he resumed his bishopric and is said to have been the first to pray publicly in Ireland for king Charles II. He died 29 March 1673, and was buried in Ossory cathedral. He left to the poor property in Llanllechid, Conway, and Llandygài. He published The

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