Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads the time of the riots in 1831; he lived in that town for some years and shared the prize for the bass solo at the 'Swan' eisteddfod in 1834. He was a tubby little man and, as is implied above, he was blind; Nathan Dyfed (Jonathan Reynolds) tells us that he used to put his little finger in the corner of his eye when he was singing. It is also said that he earned eight pounds in a single afternoon at
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778 - 1835), poet Farddoniaeth Cadair … a Gorsedd Pendefigaeth Morganwg a Gwent …, 1826. Gwilym Morgannwg's work had already been seen in print: among the compositions sent in to the Carmarthen eisteddfod, 1819, and later published in Awen Dyfed (1822), were his ode 'on the death of the outstanding military officer, Sir Thomas Picton', this by the intervention of Iolo Morganwg, since Gwilym Morgannwg had broken the
YATES, WILFRID NIGEL (1944 - 2009), archivist and historian , unable to progress further in academia, in 1971 he obtained a post as an archivist at Carmarthenshire Archives under Major Francis Jones. In 1973, as preparations were underway for the reorganisation of Carmarthenshire as part of the new county of Dyfed, Yates moved to North Tyneside, where he established an archive at North Shields Library, which itself became part of Tyne and Wear Archives Service

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