Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author flaen pob Salm. Tradition has it that he was a good preacher, and his letter to Richard Morris shows that he was keenly interested in the Welsh language. He died in 1779, and was buried 3 July at Aberffraw.
WILLIAMS, IOLO ANEURIN (1890 - 1962), journalist, author and art historian authority on the history of art in Britain and published a substantial and important book, Early English watercolours (1952). He discussed the Welsh aspects of this subject in an article ' Paul Sandby and his predecessors in Wales ' in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1961, Part II (1962), 16-33). He was himself a discerning collector; he presented 24 of his pictures to the British
WILLIAMS, ISAAC (1802 - 1865), cleric, poet, and theologian Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London. In 1817 he went to Harrow, where he became conspicuous for his skill in Latin verse. On 3 June 1882 he entered Trinity College, Oxford, and it was while spending that summer's vacation at Cwmcynfelyn that he met John Keble at Aberystwyth. They did not, however, become very friendly until the following year when Williams won the chancellor's prize for a Latin poem on
WILLIAMS, JAMES (1790 - 1872), cleric ; and took his B.D. in 1820. He was curate of Llanfair P. G. and Penmynydd, 1814-21; then succeeded his father in the three parishes which the latter resigned in 1821. He was promoted chancellor of Bangor cathedral in 1851. He died 24 March 1872, and was buried at Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy. James Williams was a ' squarson ' of the old school, a justice of the peace, very well off, and highly respected. He
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1727 - 1798), Dissenting minister, scholar and author into the authenticity of the first and second chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel, published anonymously, 1771 (2nd ed. with author's name and additions, 1789); (3) Thoughts on the origin, and on the most rational and natural method of teaching the languages, 1783, which contains a plea for the restoration of Latin as a universal language. He is also credited with the authorship of the anonymous
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1854 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Cae'r-gors, Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, 24 December 1854; his father, John Williams, hailed from the neighbourhood of Mynydd y Garn, and his mother, Jane Rowlands, from Cemaes. When he was nine, his parents removed to Beaumaris, and there (1871) he went to the grammar school kept first by John Evans and afterwards by Hugh Williams (1843 - 1911). In 1873 he began preaching, and in 1875 went to
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1806 - 1856), Baptist minister and author the Bodysgallen family, who sent him to Robert Watkin Lloyd's school at Tamworth to be prepared for Oxford. He only stayed there nine months and then returned home to find himself in an awkward position - his patron disappointed and his people vexed. He resumed his studies, was invited to keep a school at Eglwys-bach (1830-3), and began to preach. He became minister of Llansilin and Moelfre (1833-6
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1762 - 1802), Evangelical cleric tutor to his children, after which he was incumbent of Burton and Williamston, while at the same time, apparently, acting as curate to the vicar of Rosemarket. In 1793 he was appointed vicar of Begelly, where he remained until his death, 3 April 1802, at the age of 40. The remarkable thing about Williams was his pronounced Methodism; he preached powerfully, and held 'private societies' in the homes of
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan ap Ioan; 1800 - 1871), Baptist minister and author original sayings, but he is best remembered to-day as a poet and biographer. He published (1) Lloffyn y Prydydd, 1839, a volume of poetry, in both strict and free metres, on Biblical, social, and local subjects and including a number of elegies; (2) Cofiant … Dafydd Saunders, Merthyr, 1842; (3) Cofiant y Parch John Jones, Llandyssil, 1859; and (4) a biography of Benjamin Thomas, Baptist minister, Penrhiw
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Madog; 1812 - 1878), blacksmith and poet Born 3 September 1812 at Bontnewydd, Ruabon, whither his parents, Richard and Elinor Williams, had moved shortly before his birth and whence they returned, when he was about 9, to Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire. He went to various schools at Tremadoc, and, later, in Caernarvon and Denbighshire. He learnt the craft of a blacksmith, at which he continued to work. Cynhaiarn, his biographer, says that he
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1728 - 1806), hymn-writer He is said to have been born at Blaen Pennal, Cardiganshire, and to have been the brother of David Williams (1717 - 1792) of Llyswyrny; but this belief is without foundation. He was a cooper by trade and for many years kept a shop at St Athan, Glamorganshire. He is probably the 'John Williams, Carpenter,' who married Mary Voss at S. Athan, 24 June 1755; he subsequently married three other wives
WILLIAMS, JOHN (fl. 1739-1779), Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer In 1739 Howel Harris mentions 'dear Jack of Errwd '; there was, in fact, a family with that surname living at 'Erwood,' in the parish of Cerrig Cadarn, Brecknock. He and his brother, William, were exhorters in 1742-3 and the Methodist society met at their house. William (died 1746) married Ann Bowen of Tyddyn. Sarah, his sister, married Thomas James (died 1751), the Builth exhorter. In 1748 Howel

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