Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author Kyffin Williams was born at Tanygraig, Llangefni, Anglesey, on 9 May 1918, the second son of Henry Inglis Wynne Williams (1870-1942), a bank manager, and his wife Essyllt Mary (1883-1964), daughter of Richard Hughes Williams, rector of Llansadwrn. Their first son Owen Richard Inglis Williams (Dick) was born in 1916 and died in 1982. It was a matter of great pride for Kyffin Williams that his
WILLIAMS, JONATHAN (1752? - 1829), cleric, schoolmaster, and antiquary to Oxford until 1786, long after his younger brothers - his son, also John Williams (1797 - 1873) had a distinguished career at Oxford, becoming a Fellow and tutor of Christ Church. The youngest of the three brothers was HENRY WILLIAMS (1756 - 1818), a graduate from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1778; he is said to have written the article on Rhayader in Nicholson's guide-book, but this is not
WILLIAMS, LUCY GWENDOLEN (1870 - 1955), sculptress Born in 1870 at New Ferry, near Liverpool, daughter of Henry Lewis Williams, priest, and Caroline Sarah (née Lee), his wife. Her father was the son of John Williams, Highfield Hall, Northop, Flintshire, but Gwendolen Williams can hardly be said to be Welsh from the point of view of her professional dedication. She studied art under Alfred Drury at Wimbledon Art College before proceeding to the
WILLIAMS, MARGARET LINDSAY (1888 - 1960), artist ', 1924. Among her early works are landscapes and titled paintings, some revealing an unusual and original imagination, such as 'The devil's daughter' and 'The triumph' which were exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1917. Nevertheless, she inclined more and more to portraiture after the war and among her sitters were clients as varied as Henry Ford, Field Marshall Slim and Ivor Novello, as well as many
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician necessary for her to give birth to the illegitimate child she was expecting by the second Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Henry Windham Quin (1782-1850). Elizabeth Ann and Maria Jane returned to Aberpergwm at the end of the summer with a young baby. Maria Jane also used her stay in Ireland in 1826 to tour Cork and Kerry, learning Irish folksongs. This stay and her meeting with the renowned Irish
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL (1742 - 1826), Baptist (Particular, afterwards General) minister, theological controversialist, hymn-writer, and amateur doctor with the group of churches round Ffynnon-henry. David Jones (Bed. Deheubarth, 496) says that he was the first to preach at Cwmfelinfynach, and that he intended to build a church there but that the church at Rhydwilym intervened, and that he then left the place. He was ordained at Ffynnon-henry in 1785, apparently as a peripatetic preacher and minister and not to any particular church. In 1785 he
WILLIAMS, PETER BAILEY (1763 - 1836), cleric and writer -rug and Llanberis, where he spent the rest of his life; in addition, he was for some years (1815-25?) perpetual curate of Betws Garmon. He married (1) Hannah Jones of Llanrwst (died 1835) in September 1804, by whom he had a son, HENRY BAILEY WILLIAMS (1805 - 1879), rector of Llanberis (1836-43) and Llan-rug (1843-79); and (2) Charlotte Hands (widow) of Shrewsbury (died 1849) in November 1835. He was
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic Raymond Williams was born on 31 August 1921 in Pandy, near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, the only child of Henry Joseph Williams, a railway signalman, and his wife Esther Gwendoline (née Bird). Aspects of his upbringing and the lives of his parents are conveyed in his first novel, Border Country (1960), most centrally the ways in which the General Strike and Lockout of 1926 exposed strains within a
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Cyfeiliog; 1801 - 1876), poet and hymn-writer Born 4 January 1801 at Winllan, Llanbryn-mair, son of Richard Williams (Calvinistic Methodist exhorter) and Mary Williams (one of the descendants of Henry Williams of Ysgafell, and sister of the Rev. John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair), and elder brother of the Rev. Richard Williams (1802 - 1842) of Liverpool. He was educated at the school kept by his uncle and at the school of William
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor Born in Llanfairfechan, Caernarfonshire, 12 December 1924, the elder of the 2 sons of William Henry Williams and his wife Margaret (née Pritchard). He was educated at Llanfairfechan national school, 1928-35, Friars School, Bangor, 1935-42, University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1942-47 (B.A., 1st.-class hons. History, 1945), University of London, 1947-48 (diploma in archive elect studies
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM PRICHARD (1848 - 1916), co-founder of the Princes Road Presbyterian church, Bangor, and publisher of a new edition of Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr by Maurice Kyffin February 1925), daughters of Henry Lloyd Jones, solicitor, of Bangor (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 154). He died 31 July 1916.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RETLAW JEFFERSON (c.1863 - 1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian He was one of the remarkable children of Aberclydach, Llanfigan, Brecknockshire (see WILLIAMS, Alice Matilda). The father, John James Williams (died 31 March 1906), was a surgeon and a captain of the First Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers, and a member of the Gorsedd of Bards as 'Brychan'. The mother's maiden name was Jane Robertson. The main feat of the eldest son, Howell Price, was to traverse

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