Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet at Cefn-coed-y-cymer eisteddfod for a poem, 'Abraham yn aberthu Isaac,' and another at the last eisteddfod of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society for an elegy on Carnhuanawc; he won the chair at Rhyl eisteddfod, 1870, for his awdl, 'Y Nos'; at Holyhead, 1872, for an awdl, 'Moses'; at Caerphilly, 1874, for an awdl, 'Cartref'; and at Treherbert, 1877, for an awdl, 'Y Nefoedd.' He never succeeded in
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist Ruth van Heyningen was born on 26 October 1917 in Newport, Monmouthshire, the only child of Alan Treverton Jones (1877-1924), a ship-owner, and his wife Mildred (née Garrod Thomas, 1882-1970). Her mother was a daughter of Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas (1853-1931), originally from Aberaeron, a doctor at the Gwent Royal Hospital and Liberal MP for South Monmouthshire (1917-18). Her father died when she
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN NOEL YOUNG (1917 - 2003), Anglican priest Benjamin Vaughan was born on 25 December 1917 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, the son of James O. Vaughan (b. 1877), an alderman in the town, and his wife Elizabeth (née Lewis, b. 1877). He was educated at St David's College, Lampeter, where he took a first in Classics and then at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he achieved a second in Theology. He completed ministerial training at Westcott House
WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1807? - 1877), principal of Jesus College, Oxford ; he also published a volume of sermons. He died 17 October 1877. The father, too, was a prominent supporter of the 'provincial' eisteddfodic movement in S.-E. Wales; he had a well-used collection of old Welsh books.
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1877 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister and college tutor Born 4 May 1877 at Holyhead; son of Eliezer and Elizabeth Williams; the father (died 1914), a Flintshire man, a carpenter, an elder in his church, was a man widely read in theology, and acquired some knowledge of Greek; the mother (died 1923) kept a shop. The son went to school at Holyhead, at Beaumaris, and at Oswestry under Owen Owen, (1850 - 1920), and thence to University College, Aberystwyth
WILLIAMS, JAMES (1812 - 1893) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born at Laugharne 5 November 1812; a smith by trade. He joined the Calvinistic Methodists when Lewis Edwards was minister there; he began to preach about 1835, and in 1837 entered the new Calvinistic Methodist college at Bala, walking every inch of the way from Laugharne to Bala. In 1842 he was sent to Brittany to open up a mission there; he resigned in 1862, but re-visited Brittany in 1877 and
WILLIAMS, JOHN (RUFUS) (Rufus; 1833 - 1877), Baptist minister and author 1859 he was ordained minister of the English church at Dowlais, where he also kept a school for ministerial candidates, and on 6 January 1861 he moved to the Welsh church at Nebo, Ystradyfodwg, where he remained till his death 12 February 1877. He married (1) 1866, Mary Davies, daughter of Thomas Davies, Ynys y Maerdy, near Llantrisant, who died within a little over two years; (2) N. Jenkins, a
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Glanmor; 1811 - 1891), cleric, poet, and antiquary . Morris, 1877) and Awstralia a'r Cloddfeydd Aur (Denbigh, T. Gee, 1852). He edited Carolau gan Brif Feirdd Cymru a'i Phrydyddion (Wrexham, Hughes and Son, 1865), and the same company published a volume of his works in 1865. But Glanmor's greatest achievement was his publication of the history of the town and lordship of Denbigh in two volumes: Ancient and Modern Denbigh (Denbigh, 1856) and The Records
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1825 - 1904), cleric and author , Montgomeryshire. He wrote Cymry Llundain (Caernarvon, c. 1867), A Defence of the Welsh People against the Misrepresentations of their English Critics (Caernarvon, 1869?), The Early British Church (London, 1877), Notes and Narratives of … Missionary and Ministerial Labours (Machynlleth, 1885). He died at the end of September or early in October 1904.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Trebor Mai; 1830 - 1877), poet Church. He died 5 August 1877, and was buried at Llanrwst.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1810 - 1881), cleric, Celtic scholar and antiquary of Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry. He remained vicar of Llangadwaladr until 1877 and curate of Rhydycroesau until 1879, when he was appointed rector of Culmington, Herefordshire. There he remained until his death, becoming also honorary canon of St Asaph in 1872. He died, unmarried, on 26 April 1881. He was buried on 2 May at Culmington, where a memorial stone bearing an inscription in Welsh and
WILLIAMS, THOMAS RHONDDA (1860 - 1945), Congregational minister Born at Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, 19 June, 1860, one of three sons of Thomas Williams, a Calvinistic Methodist minister, who entered the ministry, two of them in the Congregational denomination and the other in his father's Connexion. He was admitted, as Thomas Rees Williams, to the Carmarthen Presbyterian College in 1877. He held pastorates at Bethania, Dowlais (1880), Gnoll Road, Neath (1884

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