Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar in Italy. He also made original contributions to the literature and learning of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. His publications include standard studies of the work of Stephen Hughes, Charles Edwards, Edward Lhuyd, William Owen Pughe and others. He drew attention to the important key role of London Welsh societies, especially the Cymmrodorion and the Gwyneddigion, in the development of the
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1862 - 1953), minister (Presb.), and Biblical commentator Born in 1862 at Rhos-goch, Rhos-y-bol, Anglesey. He began to preach c. 1885-86 at Gorslwyd, and he superintended Rhos-goch church for many years. He was educated at Gwredog School, and as a protégé of the Gwredog family he entered Bala College. The principal Thomas Charles Edwards took an interest in him, and he became his private secretary for a period; he translated into Welsh the principal's
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582 - 1650), dean of Westminster, lord keeper of the great seal, archbishop of York incurred the enmity of both Buckingham and Laud, and his views and character did not commend him to Charles. On the pretext that he had been appointed on probation, he was deprived of the Great Seal in 1625. The shifts to which he resorted to evade the Star Chamber prosecution initiated by Laud in 1628 were punished in 1637 by a heavy fine, suspension of his ecclesiastical functions, and imprisonment. He
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1762 - 1802), Evangelical cleric his parishioners. As a rule, he did not preach outside his own parish, but we know of one interesting exception; he was on friendly terms with Thomas Charles and other Methodist clerics (e.g. David Griffiths of Nevern), and in July and August 1801 we find him ministering to the non-parochial church of Broughton, Chester. It is said that he was invited to take charge of that church, but he declined
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1757 - 1810), barrister of the 10th (1787), and 11th (1791) editions of Blackstone's Commentaries, and he furnished valuable additional notes to the 3rd ed. (1799-1802) of the Reports of Cases … in the King's Bench in the Reign of Charles II. He died 27 September 1810; see also the D.N.B. One of his sons was Sir EDWARD VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1797 - 1875), barrister and scholar LawScholarship and Languages, who practised on the
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author . He urged the National Museum to exhibit Welsh art and to emphasise that the artists were Welsh. It annoyed him that Richard Wilson had not been properly recognised as a Welshman, and likewise John Gibson, the great sculptor from Conway. He and others worked hard to preserve for Wales the collection of his friend, the bird artist Charles Tunnicliffe, which was the basis of the Oriel Ynys Môn art
WILLIAMS, OWEN (1774 - after 1827), musician Born July 1774 at Cwirt, parish of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, and christened in the parish church 11 July as the son of Owen Jones, husbandman, and Ellen his wife. In 1817 he published Egwyddorddysg … neu Catechism ar Reolau Cerddoriaeth, a Welsh version of a work by Charles Dibdin, and, in 1818, Egwyddorion Canu, the latter containing eight illustrations drawn by Hugh Hughes (1790 - 1863); the two
WILLIAMS, PETER (Pedr Hir; 1847 - 1922), Baptist minister, author, and eisteddfodwr Born 1 May 1847 at Byrdir, Llanynys parish, Vale of Clwyd. His father, Thomas Williams, was a cousin of Sir Charles James Watkin Williams. He frequented the school of J. D. Jones, the musician; in 1868 he was at a Ruthin eisteddfod, enjoying the company of such varied characters as Nefydd, Talhaiarn, and Llew Llwyfo. He tried his hand at several occupations before joining the Denbighshire police
WILLIAMS, PETER (1756 - 1837), cleric and author Ascension Day, 1786. He also published a number of works, including A Short Vindication of the Established Church (Oxford, 1803); four volumes of Welsh sermons (Dolgelley, 1813-14); and an edition of Charles Edwards's Y Ffydd Ddiffuant (Dolgelley, 1824).
WILLIAMS, THOMAS CHARLES (1868 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 28 August 1868 at Bryntirion, Gwalchmai, Anglesey, son of the Rev. Hugh Williams, his mother being the daughter of the Rev. John Charles (1784 - 1858) and sister of the Revs. Hugh (1806 - 1839), John (1809 - 1865), William (1817 - 1849), and David (1823 - 1860) Charles - the two latter being very popular preachers. (Thomas, another brother, died young.) He was educated at Oswestry, Bala
WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR (c. 1623 - 1692) Llangibby, politician descended from the marriage of Howel Gam ap David (fl. 1300) to a daughter of the Scudamore family. The surname was first adopted by his grandfather, Roger Williams (died 1583), who was sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1562 and was succeeded in the office in 1627 by his son, Sir Charles Williams; the latter, Sir Trevor's father, knighted in 1621, also represented the county in Parliament that year
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1748 - 1820), cleric, a pioneer of the Sunday school movement in Wales son of Rhys and Ann Williams, Glanwenlais, Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire. Ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids, 1 September 1771, and priest, 14 August 1774, he was curate at Carmarthen; he is, however, better known as curate of S. Gennys, Cornwall. He corresponded with Thomas Charles (of Bala) on the subject of education in Wales. He is given credit for establishing a Sunday school in the

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