Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JOHN LEWIS (1882 - 1916), Wales and Cardiff Rugby wing three-quarter, and coal exporter (Greenslade and Williams)
WILLIAMS, JOHN LLOYD (1854 - 1945), botanist and musician leading expert on the arctic alpine flora of Snowdonia. From childhood his passion had been natural history and music. While at Garn Dolbenmaen he wrote operettas : his best known mature composition were Aelwyd Angharad and Cadifor with Llew Tegid (Lewis David Jones) as librettist. He was eminent as a musical adjudicator, choir conductor and conductor of musical festivals throughout his life. He was
WILLIAMS, LEWIS - see WILLIAM, LEWIS
WILLIAMS, LLYWELYN (1911 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and politician College of Swansea with a scholarship and graduated in Welsh and philosophy in 1933. After a theological course at the Presbyterian College in Carmarthen, he was ordained minister in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, in 1936. He left in 1943 for the Tabernacl, Abertillery, and within three years was called to succeed Howell Elvet Lewis at Tabernacl, King's Cross, London. In 1950 he was elected M.P. for
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, RICHARD (1835 - 1906), antiquary and lawyer Born at Bontdolgadfan, Llanbryn-mair, son of William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog). He was educated at schools at Llanbryn-mair and Newtown, and at Bala C.M. College. He then worked in the offices of David Howell of Machynlleth, 1851-6, and Abraham Howell of Welshpool, 1856-69 - both of them being solicitors; he himself was admitted a solicitor in 1866. In 1869 he moved to Newtown, where he spent
WILLIAMS, RICHARD HUGHES (Dic Tryfan; 1878? - 1919), journalist and short story writer Born at Rhosgadfan, Caernarfonshire, c. 1878. The son of a quarryman, he, too, worked in the quarry as a boy, later becoming a pupil at J. Lewis Jones's private school at Caernarvon. On leaving school he became a clerk in the office of Y Genedl, and later followed various occupations, including journalistic work in England, returning to Caernarvon about the beginning of the century as sub-editor
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Clwydfro; 1821 - 1855), poet Born at Glan-clwyd, Bodfari, the son of Robert Williams (below). He started to write poetry when he was very young, sending his work to the Ceiniogwerth (see Jones, Lewis, 1808 - 1854), the Amserau, and the Beirniadur Cymreig, (1845). He went out to Australia as a gold miner, and was in Melbourne in 1853 or 1854 (Cymru, O.M.E., xxxi, 284). He died at Castlemaine, April 1855, 'aged 34.' ROBERT
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (fl. end of the 18th century), attorney, outstanding figure in the copper industry , squire William Hughes and his son, the first W. Bulkeley Hughes; he drafted the deeds by which the earl of Uxbridge purchased Plas Llanfair from John Lewis of Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd (1791). Some years before that, about 1785, Williams had become chief agent of the copper mines of Mynydd Parys by Amlwch, mines that were owned partly by the earl and partly by the family of Llysdulas; for a time both
WILLIAMS, WALDO GORONWY (1904 - 1971), poet and pacifist ' (region of brotherhood). Although the poem's main thrust is clear it is more challenging and difficult in terms of imagery and expression than his earlier poems, confirming an emerging pattern in the post-1939 poetry, and reflecting the poet's wish to align with D. Gwenallt Jones and Saunders Lewis in breaking free from the conventional lyric and sonnet forms. But the period from 1939 onwards
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Creuddynfab; 1814 - 1869), poet and literary critic this period also that he became friendly with Ceiriog - see Saunders Lewis, Ceiriog (1929), 21-31.About 1860 he resigned and settled at Llandudno in order to become secretary of the National Eisteddfod Association - the Association's first paid secretary - a position he had to relinquish five years later (two years according to one source) for reasons of health. Although he has only one publication
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1732 - 1799), Baptist minister, and justice of the peace equated the 'infallibility of the Association' with the 'infallibility of the Pope' (1799; republished in Yr Ymofynydd, 1849, 201-3; summarised in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1930, 45-7). It seems probable that it was only his death which saved William Williams from excommunication. In 1784, he had taken as his third wife Dorothy Lewis of Llwyngrawys, Llangoedmor (see Meyrick

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