Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 JONES (1863 - 1949), civil servant, secretary of Kodak Limited, treasurer of Coleg Harlech and Urdd Gobaith Cymru Born 21 May 1863 at Salford, Lancashire, the eldest of the 7 children of John Williams (1828 - 1877), warehouseman, formerly of Tynygraig, Garthgarmon, near Llanrwst, and his first wife Ellen Williams (1838 - 1874), formerly of Bethel, near Llandderfel, Meironnydd. He was at Manchester Grammar School from January 1875 until December 1876 when he began to be employed on 21 December at ' Mr
WILLIAMS-ELLIS, JOHN CLOUGH (1833 - 1913), scholar, clergyman, poet and possibly the first Welshman to climb one of the highest mountains in the Alps Oberland. The mountain had been scaled earlier, possibly as early as 1812, but this first British climb motivated William Mathews and Kennedy to establish an Alpine Club. Williams-Ellis did not join the Club and there is no mention of him visiting the Alps again but the family still has his alpenstock. On 2 January 1877 he married Ellen Mabel Greaves. They had 6 sons: Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author things, including spiritualism. He succeeded to the earldom and other titles on the death of his father in 1871 but did not immediately take his seat in the House of Lords. In December 1877, while staying in the United States with a party which included Lord Rosebery, he wrote an article for The World on the state of Europe which attracted attention. He made his maiden speech in the Lords in February
WYNNE family Peniarth, Kaernarvon (1838), and Askew Roberts, who prepared the third ed. (1877) of Sir John Wynn's The history of the Gwydir family. Angharad Llwyd and Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') were often at Peniarth, whilst among Wynne's numerous correspondents were such antiquaries as Joseph Morris of Shrewsbury and John Jones, Llanllyfni. Other publications by him (besides numerous contributions to Mont. Coll., Y
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer David Wynne was born at Nantmoch Uchaf farm, Penderyn, Breconshire, on 2 June 1900, the son of Philip Thomas (born 1872) and his wife Elizabeth (née Thomas, born 1877). He was christened David William Thomas, and later adopted the name David Wynne for his musical career. In 1901 the family moved to Llanfabon, Glamorgan, where his father found work in the Albion colliery in Cilfynydd. David

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