Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter He was born at 11 Lower Row, Pen-y-wern, Dowlais, Glamorgan, on 30 September 1925. He was one of three children born to Thomas John Williams (1892-1971) and Gwladys Williams née Morgan (1896-1983), both of whom were schoolteachers. His roots were deep in the iron-making town and he took pride in being the archetypal 'bachgen bach o Ddowlais' (little boy from Dowlais). The house where he was
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist the signatories of the Word for God in condemnation of Cromwell's Protectorate, 1655. With the Restoration of 1660 and the coming of the Clarendon Code, it was difficult for Williams to escape close observation; the spies of 1669 reported that he kept a conventicle in his own house, and figured as chief preacher in it; accounts have come down of brutal conduct towards his father and his wife. On the
WILLIAMS, HENRY PARRY - see PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator Born 18 February 1796 at Gelli-goch, Is-garreg, a mile and a half from Machynlleth on the road to Derwen-las, the son of Hugh Williams and his wife, Elinor Evans. Azariah Shadrach lived with the family for a time (c. 1801) at Gelli-goch, and acted as schoolmaster to the children. Of them, JOHN WILLIAMS practised as a solicitor at Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn Road, London, from 1829 onwards
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author Born in Llanengan, Llŷn peninsula, in 1721 or 1722 (he was christened 18 January 1721/2), the son of William Williams (or ' Jones ') and Catherine his wife - William Morris suggests (Morris Letters, i, 308) that he was connected with the Bodvel family, but Foster enters 'pleb.' against his father's name. According to a letter which he wrote to Richard Morris in 1764, he was educated at Friars
WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH (1718 - 1794), soldier and Member of Parliament Born in 1718, the son of Griffith Williams of Ariannws (Llangelynnin, Conway valley) and grandson of Edmund Williams, brother of Sir Hugh Williams of Marl; when his kinsman Sir Robert Williams of Marl died (1745), he succeeded as 8th baronet 'of Penrhyn' (J. E. Griffith Pedigrees, 186 and 43). He married, in 1761, Emma, widow of lord James Bulkeley and heiress of Caerau and Castellior (see under
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Cadfan; 1807? - 1870), printer and journalist
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Hywel Cernyw; 1843 - 1937), Baptist minister, writer, and poet Born 13 April 1843 at Pentre, Llangernyw, son of Moses and Mary Williams. He began to take an interest in literature at an early age, and lyrics and englynion written by him appeared in Yr Athraw in 1860, when he was only 17 years of age. He was admitted to the Baptist College, Llangollen, in January 1863, and was ordained to the ministry at Staylittle and Dylife, Montgomeryshire in December 1865
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1843 - 1911), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and church historian
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1862 - 1953), minister (Presb.), and Biblical commentator
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1596 - 1670), rector - see WYNN
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1596 - 1670), rector - see WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM

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