Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir CHARLES HANBURY (1708 - 1759), satirical writer and diplomatist invested £44,700 in various mortgages and securities. This was settled in 1732 on his fourth son, Charles, who thereupon adopted the name of Williams. Charles Hanbury Williams married, on 1 July 1732, Frances, daughter of earl Coningsby. Charles Hanbury Williams wrote much satirical verse, and Horace Walpole professed to believe him the greatest poet of his generation. In 1746 he began the series of
WILLIAMS, Sir CHARLES JAMES WATKIN (1828 - 1884), Member of Parliament, judge revival. On 24 May 1870 he moved a resolution in the House of Commons in favour of the disestablishment of the Welsh Church, but was opposed by Gladstone. He became a puisne judge in 1880, soon after his election for Caernarvonshire, and in that capacity won a reputation for care and sound legal knowledge. He died suddenly, 17 July 1884, and was buried at Kensal Green. He married (1) Henrietta, daughter
WILLIAMS, CYRIL GLYNDWR (1921 - 2004), theologian Cyril Williams was born on 1 June 1921 in Pont-iets, Carmarthenshire, the youngest in a family of nine born to David Williams, a coal miner, and his wife Hannah. After having attended for a time the local Elim Pentecostal fellowship, the family returned to Nazareth Congregational chapel where, apart from being more staid and traditionalist, the medium of worship was Welsh. Educated at the
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity Chauncy. One of the results of this brawl (Williams having already established a collateral 'lecture' at Salters' Hall) was the dissolution of the ' Happy Union ' formed in 1690-1 between the Presbyterians and the Independents. Williams was fiercely attacked because of his ' Arminianism ' (which, in fact, was merely ' Baxterism'), and in the heat of the battle an unsuccessful attempt was made to smear
WILLIAMS, DANIEL POWELL (Pastor Dan; 1882 - 1947), founder and first president of the Apostolic Church , Daniel, whilst at work underground, received a call to become a preacher, and in order to prove the genuiness of the call he set a fortnight to pass to await an invitation from his minister which came before the end of the period. He preached his first sermon on 1 February and visited the churches of the district in turn; he was duly admitted as a regular preacher with the Independents. Though two
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1793? - 1845), author that were projected, and three editions appeared in the same year. In 1833 he left for the U.S.A., settling at Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he was employed at the Craneville iron-works. He died 1 May 1845.
WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1870 - 1951), schoolmaster of the Union from 1924 to 1927 and Chairman 1944-45. He was general secretary of Bala-Bangor College from 1932 to 1951 and over a period of some 20 years he compiled a biographical dictionary of all the professors and students of the college. There is a copy of the work at N.L.W. He married twice; (1) in 1897 Selina, daughter of John Evans, Minafon, Blackwood, Monmouth, and (2) in 1929 her sister
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1950), schoolmaster and author Qualified Assistant at Corwen (1919), as Qualified Head at Llawrybetws (1919-20), Llandderfel (1920-31), Llanbedr (1931-48). He retired 31 August 1948. He married Lena Williams of Llanuwchllyn in 1922. He died suddenly at a meeting of Meirionethshire Education Committee at Dolgellau 1 February 1950 and was buried at Llanuwchllyn 4 February 1950. He published a large number of books for use in schools
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian Born 1 March 1878 and brought up in Y Wenallt, parish of Troed-yr-aur (Trefdreyr), Cardiganshire. His father Ivor Pryse Williams (1850 - 1920) was the son of the writer priest Benjamin Williams ('Gwynionydd '; 1821 - 1891) and his mother Elizabeth the daughter of a Baptist family of Bethel church, Dre-fach Felindre, whose two brothers, David Phillip Jones (1850 - 1884), Felin-gwm and Llanfynydd
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Delegation to the United Nations in September to October 1950, and leader of the British delegation to the conference on African defence at Nairobi in August 1951. For a brief period, from 1 June 1951, he held the post of Minister of Civil Aviation, until Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister, restricted by a small majority in the House of Commons, called and lost a general election on 25th October. In
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (1890 - 1963), politician Born 1 July 1890 at Victoria, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, the son of Emanuel Williams and Ada (née James) his wife. He was educated at Victoria voluntary school and Hopkinstown elementary school and in 1902, at 12 years of age, he began work at the Waunllwyd colliery, Ebbw Vale. He attended evening classes provided by Glamorganshire County Council in mining, political economy and book-keeping. He
WILLIAMS, ELIEZER (1754 - 1820), cleric, author, and schoolmaster was buried at Lampeter. He wrote a number of works in English (see the list in D.N.B.); a collection of these was published in 1840 by his son, St. George Armstrong Williams. While he was at Lampeter, he opened a school there and prepared young men for holy orders; he was eminently successful in this work. He married (1), 1792, Anne Adelaide Grebert of Nancy, Lorraine, France; they had one child

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