Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JOHN JOHN (1884 - 1950), school-teacher, education administrator, producer and drama adjudicator health was fragile but he had vivacity and humour. He possessed a charming personality, was an interesting conversationalist and an entertaining broadcaster. Amongst his other friends were William Garmon Jones, the article by J.J.W.), E. Morgan Humphreys and Gwilym R. Jones. He possessed dignity and courtesy. He was described as a Welsh Christian Socialist. He enjoyed wandering in the rural parts of
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author Pwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, on 1 September 2006, after a period of illness in Ysbyty Gwynedd. His funeral service was held on 11 September in Bangor Cathedral, where his grandfather the Reverend Owen Lloyd Williams had been chancellor. The service was led by the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Reverend Barry Morgan, and Kyffin was buried in the cemetery of Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy Church, Anglesey, where his
WILLIAMS, MARGARETTA (Rita) (1933 - 2018), lecturer and Celtic linguist Margretta Williams, or Rita as she was known, was born in 1933 in Cwmgors, Glamorganshire, but spent most of her childhood in the neighbouring village of Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen. She was the third daughter of William Morgan (1898-1961), a miner, and Gwennie Morgan (née Williams, 1903-1976), a housewife, and had two older sisters: Eulonwy (1925-2010) and Mary (1931-2011). As well as being erudite, Rita
WILLIAMS, MORGAN (c. 1750 - 1830), cleric Editor of two booklets entitled Collectanea; neu Gasgliadau o Flodeuog-Waith yr Awduron Brytanaidd (Carmarthen, 1820, 1823). He may be the ' Morgan Williams of Penderin ' who was ordained deacon 14 August 1774 and priest 6 August 1775, in which case he became curate of Aberedw, Radnorshire, in 1775, and curate of Vaynor and Taf-fechan, Brecknock, in 1788. It is as curate of Bayvil, Pembrokeshire
WILLIAMS, MORGAN (1808 - 1883), chartist
WILLIAMS, MORGAN, Dissenting layman - see WILLIAMS, ROGER
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL (1742 - 1826), Baptist (Particular, afterwards General) minister, theological controversialist, hymn-writer, and amateur doctor attributed to Peter Williams himself (which is most unlikely), to William Williams of Cardigan and William Richards of Lynn, and to Nathaniel Williams, and J. J. Evans (Morgan J. Rhys, 148-50) gives strong reasons for supposing that the last-named is the most likely. In 1796, Nathaniel Williams published, from the Trevecka press, Pharmacopoeia, or Medical Admonitions in English and Welsh … The Second Part
WILLIAMS, Sir ROGER (1540? - 1595), soldier and author he was a member of a troop of 300 men who went to Flushing, under captain Thomas Morgan (c. 1542 - 1595), to assist the Dutch against the armies of Spain; he fought also alongside of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Philip Sidney. From the Netherlands he went to Germany - for details refer to the D.N.B. He was knighted by the earl of Leicester - possibly in 1586. His first publication was A Brief
WILLIAMS, ROGER (1667 - 1730), Independent minister , James, died 1760). He died 25 May 1730 at the age of 63, and John and David Williams were ordained ministers of Cefnarthen. John is known to have been his son and David probably belonged to the same family. The Williamses were a powerful clan in Cefnarthen, and other members of the family were Morgan Williams of Ty'n-coed, the able secretary of the church and one of the most prominent Dissenting
WILLIAMS, THOMAS LLOYD (1830 - 1910), Welsh-American writer Born 25 November 1830 at Brongaled, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merionethshire. He came under the influence of the Rev. Richard Humphreys and the Rev. Edward Morgan. He served in a shop for a while before he emigrated to Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A., in 1850; there he opened a shop and worked in a woollen factory. He contributed to Y Drych and other journals. He published A brief history of the early Welsh
WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS MARCHANT (1845 - 1914), barrister and writer Fathers; The Welsh Members of Parliament, 1894 (critical sketches of the Welsh members, with caricatures by Will Morgan); and Odlau Serch a Bywyd, 1907, a volume of verse. He will be best remembered as the founder and editor, in 1907, of The Nationalist, a monthly magazine in which he gave his critical and controversial abilities full play. He was married in 1883, and knighted in 1904. He died at his
WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR (c. 1623 - 1692) Llangibby, politician a crippling fine, which ended his political career. On his death in 1692, the title (and the representation of Monmouthshire from 1698-1708) passed successively to his two surviving sons by his wife Elizabeth, heiress of Thomas Morgan of Machen (his fellow-member for the county), but it lapsed on the death of his great-nephew, Sir Leonard Williams, in 1758; the estates passed by marriage to the

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