Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, PHILIP (d. 1717), genealogist of Plas Dyffryn Clydach in the Neath valley, son of Philip Williams (died 1668). Besides being a genealogist, the son was steward of the manor of Cadoxton and of the Neath Abbey estate of Elizabeth Hoby (died 1699). He is included here because he is notable as an example of a Glamorgan man who encouraged and patronised Glamorgan local bards (such as Dafydd Evans, William Prees Crwth) as also did
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic cultural studies. The often-generous engagement with pre-socialist and even anti-socialist thinkers (from Edmund Burke to T. S. Eliot) proved disconcerting to readers on the Left, but allowed Williams, characteristically, to access neglected sources of social critique and to forge a socialist cultural criticism that would prove resistant to the whims and fashions of the political and cultural climate
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1848 - 1918), architect, author and social reformer Robert Williams was born on 27 January 1848 in Ystradowen, Glamorgan, the second son of Rees Williams, a carpenter, and his wife Mary (née Evans). Following his education at the Eagle Academy, Cowbridge, Robert worked for a local building contractor, before leaving Wales around 1873 to study architecture and building construction at the South Kensington School of Art, where he won several prizes
WILLIAMS, ROBERT HERBERT (Corfanydd; 1805 - 1876), musician ), 1843. Some doubts were expressed as to who had composed this tune but John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), J. Ambrose Lloyd, William Ambrose (Emrys), and William Evans (under whose conductorship it had been sung first, at Tabernacle chapel, Liverpool) testified that it was the work of Corfanydd. He wrote other hymn-tunes and published a small collection in 1848 under the title of Alawydd Trefriw. For some
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (Hwfa Môn; 1823 - 1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales Born at Pen y Graig, Trefdraeth, Anglesey, in March 1823. When he was 5 years of age the family went to live at Rhos-tre-Hwfa, near Llangefni, where he was brought up as a Calvinistic Methodist until he was 14. He was apprenticed to John Evans, a Llangefni carpenter, and later worked at his trade at Bangor, Deiniolen, Port Dinorwic, and other places. In 1847 he returned to Anglesey and shortly
WILLIAMS, SAMUEL (c. 1660 - c. 1722), cleric and author its chapels of ease, Capel Crist and Llanina. He was given the living of Llandyfrïog in 1697 and became rector of Llangynllo, Cardiganshire in 1710. The living of Llandyfrïog was given to Theophilus Evans in 1722; thus Samuel Williams's death could not have occurred later than that year. His work proves that by 1696 he was an experienced copyist. Some of the following manuscripts are either wholly
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN JOSEPH (1896 - 1992), Welsh scholar editor for the popular Y Geiriadur Mawr (H. Meurig Evans and W.O. Thomas, 1958). He supported all aspects of Welsh life in Swansea, especially Ty'r Cymry and the Welsh Drama Society for which he wrote his 'Y dyn hysbys' in 1935. He was a prominent supporter of the National Eisteddfod, serving as a member of the Council for many years and also as its Chairman, and as a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. He
WILLIAMS, WATKIN HEZEKIAH (Watcyn Wyn; 1844 - 1905), schoolmaster, poet, and preacher words to be set to music. A few of his hymns are still widely sung by Welsh congregations. He published several books of verse, Caneuon Watcyn Wyn, 1871, Hwyr Ddifyrion, 1883, Cân a Thelyn, 1895, Storiau Cymru, Caneuon y Safonau, Job (drama), 1874, a translation of Moody and Sankey's latest hymns Odlau'r Efengyl, and a small book on Welsh literature, a short biography (1890) of T. Penry Evans, and, in
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1738 - 1817) Llandygái, antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry men, and built up a Corph o Dduwinyddiaeth, that was published at Bangor in 1831; the author of a long obituary appreciation of the father in the Gwyliedydd for 1828, in the form of a letter to Gutyn Peris, was his son Edmund Williams.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Cyfeiliog; 1801 - 1876), poet and hymn-writer Owen (1788 - 1838). He returned home to help his father on the farm and in a flannel mill which he owned. About 1822 he acquired possession of some land, houses, and a flannel mill at Pont Dolgadfan, where he went to live. For a time he held the posts of vestry clerk, assistant overseer, and parish registrar. He was married three times - (1) 1828, to Anne Evans of Minffordd; (2) 1834, to Mary Morris
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Caledfryn; 1801 - 1869), Congregational minister, poet, and critic commissioner Johnson in 1846. In the Temperance movement he opposed total abstinence, preferring temperance. His autobiography, together with some of his verse and prose works, was published under the title Cofiant Caledfryn (ed. Scorpion) by H. Evans, Bala, in 1877.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1781 - 1840), Independent minister life of Wales. His name is linked with those of John Elias and Christmas Evans as one of the 'three giants' of the Welsh pulpit. He transformed the style of preaching in his denomination (which was then known as the 'Dry Dissenters') and left a permanent impression on its pulpit oratory. He had an attractive personality and remarkable eyes. His preaching was characterised by its clarity and freshness

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