Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir CHARLES JAMES WATKIN (1828 - 1884), Member of Parliament, judge of William Henry Carey, and (2) Elizabeth, daughter of lord justice Lush. He wrote The Principles and Practice of Pleading in Civil Actions, The Philosophy of Evidence, and The Law of Church Rates (a pamphlet).
WILLIAMS, DAFYDD RHYS (Index; 1851 - 1931), author and journalist Born 8 May 1851 at Tai Hywel o'r Llwyn, Cefn Coed y Cymer, Brecknock., the son of a cattle drover. He began to work underground when he was 13 years old. He won prizes at eisteddfodau - for a drama at Aberdare, a pryddest at Treherbert, a poem at Jewin chapel (London) eisteddfod, and afterwards at national eisteddfodau held at Merthyr Tydfil and Denbigh. By this time he was working in London
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity schools about 1850, but when the Act of 1870 laid down that elementary education should be a charge on the rates, the endowments of the Daniel Williams schools were diverted to the founding of a boarding school for girls at Dolgelley, which is still known as ' Dr. Williams's School '; (2) the establishment of scholarships for candidates for the Nonconformist ministry to enable them to go to Glasgow
WILLIAMS, DANIEL POWELL (Pastor Dan; 1882 - 1947), founder and first president of the Apostolic Church ) Elizabeth Harries of Llandeilo, and they had seven children; she died 23 May 1918; (2) Mabel Thomas of Porthcawl. He died on 13 February 1947. He published The prophetical ministry (1931); The work of an evangelist; and The sanctuary of the Christian life; and composed a number of hymns in Welsh and English.
WILLIAMS, DANIEL THOMAS (Tydfylyn; 1820 - 1876), Congregational minister, poet, and musician poetry and music, including Y Canor Dirwestol, 1845; prize musical compositions, 1849; Pennillion Arobryn Eisteddfod y Cymmrodorion Dirwestol, Merthyr, 1854, 1855 (ed.); Cathlau Byrion, 1864; a lecture and an awdl on The 'Sea,' 1868. He wrote the Welsh words to 'Yr Ehedydd' and the English words to 'Rhyfelgan y Myncod' and 'Cydgan y Bradwyr,' musical compositions by Joseph Parry. He died 2 May 1876.
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1877 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister and college tutor - a chair which he exchanged for the New Testament chair when the college was removed (1906) to Aberystwyth. In 1916-8 he was a chaplain attached to the Royal Welch Fusileers, and served with them in Egypt and (during severe fighting) in Palestine; his popularity and influence among the troops have become a legend. Though a most inspiring teacher at Aberystwyth, we are told that he ' never settled
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1779 - 1874), Congregational minister Llandovery in 1796 and to Merthyr Tydfil in 1797; he took part in the founding of a Congregational church at Merthyr. Returning home, he began to preach at Llanwrtyd in 1799. He preached for four years before he was ordained; in 1800 he undertook a preaching tour in North Wales. He was ordained minister of Llanwrtyd and Troedrhiwdalar on 8 August 1803, the Presbyterian Board making him a grant of five
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1702 - 1779), early Welsh Moravian Born in Llandwrog parish, Caernarfonshire, 2 August 1702. In 1728 at latest, he was a bookbinder in London. He and his wife joined the Moravian society in 1739. She died 5 December 1766, and at the end of 1767 he decided to return to his native region. It was he who brought Mrs. Alice Griffith (see Griffith, William, 1719 - 1782) into contact with Moravianism, and got David Mathias sent to north
WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1870 - 1951), schoolmaster of the Union from 1924 to 1927 and Chairman 1944-45. He was general secretary of Bala-Bangor College from 1932 to 1951 and over a period of some 20 years he compiled a biographical dictionary of all the professors and students of the college. There is a copy of the work at N.L.W. He married twice; (1) in 1897 Selina, daughter of John Evans, Minafon, Blackwood, Monmouth, and (2) in 1929 her sister
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer the frontier peoples with the work of the new constitution for Burma'. He arrived at Rangoon on 2 March 1947 and found that the Secretary to the Committee was W. B. J. Ledwidge, a young man from the Burma Office, whose 'blue shirt, khaki shorts and pink ankle socks infuriated the Governor and none too pleasing to me'. The Director of the Frontier Areas was John Lamb Leyden OBE, a Flintshire man
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Morgan. He also had the opportunity to read Welsh manuscripts. Thomas Richards, Coychurch, and John Walters, Llandough, must be listed among his teachers - and this accounts for the great interest which he took in the vocabulary of the Welsh language. Thus it was that he began to grow into a Welsh scholar. He learnt his father's craft, that of a stonemason. He journeyed in North Wales c. 1771-2 and, in
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1818 - 1880), Independent minister Born 29 December 1818 at Blaenavon, Monmouthshire; his father came from the Mynydd-bach district, Swansea; his mother had French connections. He began to preach in 1843, and received a call to minister to Dinas Mawddwy and its district; there he was ordained 27 April 1848. He died 8 April 1880, and was buried in Dinas Mawddwy cemetery. He published Cofiant a Phregethau … D. Milton Davies

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