Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, HUGH (Hywel Cernyw; 1843 - 1937), Baptist minister, writer, and poet jointly by him and Owen Davies of Caernarvon; and Christ the Centre, 1902 (a book of English sermons). He also published a number of tracts. He died 3 May 1937, and was buried in Corwen cemetery.
WILLIAMS, HUW OWEN (Huw Menai; 1886 - 1961), poet Born 4 Rathborne Court, Caernarfon 13 July 1886, registered as the son of Elizabeth Williams and her husband William Williams, slate-quarryman, though it has been suggested that his natural father may have been one Hugh Owen. He left school at the age of twelve but continued to read widely and worked at various short-term jobs to help support himself and his mother. At the age of sixteen he went
WILLIAMS, JAMES (1790 - 1872), cleric was interested in agriculture, and contributed notes to John Owen (1808 - 1876) of Tyn-llwyn's book on cattle breeding (1869). He was a zealous and generous supporter of the national eisteddfod which he rarely failed to attend. Moreover, it was he who prepared the way for (Sir) John Rhys - at that time a schoolmaster in Anglesey - to go to Oxford. His daughter, Louisa Mary, married Sir Andrew
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582 - 1650), dean of Westminster, lord keeper of the great seal, archbishop of York . At his own cost he repaired and fortified Conway castle, holding the king's written assurance that it should remain in his custody until his outlay was repaid. But owing to his unpalatable advice his influence with the king was waning; and in May 1645 he was unceremoniously turned out of Conway castle by the Royalist, Sir John Owen of Clenennau. Convinced that the king's cause was lost, and nursing
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith value of £200 and £173 respectively) to him are twice mentioned. As was customary, the goldsmith was also a banker and a moneylender. The Wynn papers show that Williams lent money (as much as £500 at a time) to his kinsman Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, and that he had trouble in getting it back - the last reference to him in the papers (February 1626) shows Sir John appealing to him to be patient, but Owen
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1727 - 1798), Dissenting minister, scholar and author exploit was a defence of the discovery of America by Welshmen in the 12th century under the title of An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170, 1791. This was followed by Further observations on the same subject in 1792.
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ab Ithel; 1811 - 1862), cleric and antiquary Cambrian Journal, which he edited from 1854 until his death. He became the leading light in the Welsh Manuscripts Society, and edited four of its publications; worse still, on the death of Aneurin Owen he was appointed by the government (1858) to complete the plan of publishing the old Welsh chronicles - Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogion appeared in 1860. His editorial work was shot to pieces by
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1760 - 1826), cleric and schoolmaster preserving for posterity a substantial group of the Wynn of Gwydir Papers (see introduction to N.L.W. Calendar of the Wynn (of Gwydir) Papers, 1926), the letters of Goronwy Owen, which were published by J. H. Davies in 1924, and some letters of Edward Owen of Warrington, the friend of Goronwy Owen. NLW MS 30B, NLW MS 31B, NLW MS 32B, NLW MS 33B, NLW MS 34B, NLW MS 58B, NLW MS 107B, NLW MS 109B, NLW MS 276A
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS (1901 - 1975), author and dramatist works as a repertoire. As a dramatist, publisher, producer, adjudicator and teacher he had a crucial role in the Welsh drama movement. His enthusiasm for new media led to his co-operation with Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards in writing and producing 'Y Chwarelwr' ('The Quarryman'), the first Welsh sound film in 1935 and to his pioneering work in Welsh radio plays. He was a keen observer of life as revealed
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet giving birth to a son who died within a year and five months. He married (2), 1903, Abigail Jenkins of Pontlotyn, sister to the mother of Sir Daniel Thomas Davies. She died 24 June 1936 when he was in Bangor passing the chairmanship of the Union to John Dyfnallt Owen. He died 6 May 1954.
WILLIAMS, JOHN JOHN (1884 - 1950), school-teacher, education administrator, producer and drama adjudicator Robert Williams Parry and they remained lifelong friends, J.J. being the poets best man at his wedding. Other contemporaries were H.D. Hughes, minister (CM) and Dr. Arthur Owen. After a period as a pupil-teacher he entered the Normal College, Bangor, in 1905. He was awarded the teacher's certificate (first class) in 1907. The same year he went as an assistant teacher to Granby Street elementary school
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

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