Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (fl. 1853), translator and author in 1853. See now the note by E. Wyn James in Canu Gwerin, 27 (2004), p.46 (n.27), which shows that Thomas Levi was the author of the two volumes published under the pseudonym 'Y Lefiad'. The Methodist minister William Williams (1817-1900) contributed an introduction to Thomas Levi's translation, Crynodeb o Gaban 'Newyrth Tom (1853).
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1781 - 1840), Independent minister reputation of being the most lively and mischievous boy in the neighbourhood. At the age of 13 he went to Bedd y Coedwr farm to hear ' Peg-leg ' Rhys Davies preach, was profoundly moved by his sermon, and from that day began to take an interest in religious matters. He now attended Pen-y-stryd chapel, where there was an Independent cause started by the congregation of the Old Chapel, Llanuwchllyn, and was
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM JONES (1863 - 1949), civil servant, secretary of Kodak Limited, treasurer of Coleg Harlech and Urdd Gobaith Cymru . Salmon's, Machinist, Manchester ' at a wage of five shillings per week. He entered the Civil Service by examination, c. 1880, joining the Exchequer and Audit Department as a Second Division Clerk, and remaining in that service until 1900. In 1900, at the invitation of George Davison, late of Plas Wern Fawr, Harlech (now the home of Coleg Harlech), who had himself been in the Exchequer and Audit
WILSON, HERBERT REES (1929 - 2008), scientist Maurice Wilkins. Despite not being one of the researchers awarded the Nobel Prize at the time, the contribution made by Herbert Wilson was extremely important and has been widely recognised in the subsequent years. In the quadrangle entrance of King's College there is now a plaque commemorating the five DNA pioneers of that institution, listing Herbert Wilson alongside Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter ; and his style was much copied after his death. He suffered neglect and some distress in his lifetime, but is now ranked among the great landscape-painters of 18th century Europe. At his best, he is a master of style; as an interpreter of light he is the successor of Claude and Cuyp, and an inspirer of Constable and Turner. His own inspiration came equally from Italy and Wales, enabling him to
WINTER, CHARLES (1700 - 1773), Arminian Baptist minister -operated amicably with him. But when Jones, in 1749, emigrated to America, dissension broke out afresh, and Winter was excommunicated. He now decided to form an Arminian Baptist church, in association with the dissidents who, in 1730, had refused to compromise. In 1751 they secured a site for a chapel, at Craig-y-fargod, in Bedlinog - it was opened 28 January 1753; the church numbered twenty-three
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies thought that Abraham Wood and his family came to Wales from Frome (Somerset), but it is now accepted (J.G.L.S., 1931, 171-87) that the man from Frome was not the same Abraham Wood. According to his great-grandson, John Roberts, the Newtown harpist (1816 - 1894), who spoke Romany fluently, our Abram came to the Severn region (Llanidloes, Llanbryn-mair, Machynlleth) 'some 200 years' before the time at
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, one great monument of Gwynn's period as Master. In 1626, at the request of bishop Neile (and doubtless under the influence of Williams, now Buckingham's protégé), he supported Buckingham's election as chancellor of the university over the Puritan nominee - an event which caused a great political storm; but Buckingham did not live to return the favour. Hacket and Baker both speak slightingly of him
WYNNE, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer The son of the squire of Copa'rleni (the name has several forms - see Ellis Davies, Prehistoric and Roman Remains of Flintshire, 159-60; the old mansion is now a farmhouse, known as ' Y Gop'), Trelawnyd ('Newmarket'), Flintshire. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all named John Wynne; the great-grandfather was the son of Edward ap John Wynne ap Robert ap Ieuan ap Cynwrig ap
WYNNE, SARAH EDITH (Eos Cymru; 1842 - 1897), vocalist the S. James's Hall, the other in the Crystal Palace. She now settled in London and was soon to become one of the best vocalists in the country. In 1862 she sang in the national eisteddfod held at Caernarvon. She toured during 1863-5 with Madam Patti, Santley, and Edward Lloyd, and for eight weeks in 1864 she took the part of ' lady Mortimer ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV at Drury Lane Theatre. She had
YARDLEY, EDWARD (1698 - 1769), archdeacon Although not a Welshman, Yardley deserves a note because of his study of the records of the cathedral of S. Davids, and as the author of the manuscript called ' Menevia Sacra ' (now in N.L.W. in three vols.), which resulted from that study. Details concerning his career as given by himself in the manuscript are reprinted on pp. 230-32 of Menevia Sacra … ed. by Francis Green in 1927. Born in
YORKE, PHILIP (1743 - 1804) Erddig, Erthig,, antiquary -9, he spent three terms at Eton (1759-60), followed, after a year at home, by two years at Benet College (now Corpus Christi), Cambridge (from 10 April 1762), and finishing at Lincoln's Inn (1764). He graduated M.A. 'per literas regias' in 1765, and came down with a strong taste for the classics (especially Virgil) and a bent for antiquities recognised by his election to the Society of Antiquaries

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