Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN HAYDN (1902 - 1965), education officer Industrial Research in London. In 1931 he was appointed lecturer at Wrexham Technical College and was responsible for developing their chemistry department, specialising on the industrial side. In 1938 he came to the then Flintshire, as deputy Director of Education and became Director of Education in 1941. He was a member of the Court and Council of the University of Wales and a member of several sub
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer living and dying for mirrored in his native 'square mile'. Certainly he idealised it, but it is equally true that he showed the civilised, multi-talented, hardworking society which he had idealised in Hen Wynebau (1934) and Storïau'r Tir Glas (1936) gradually disintegrating in Storïau'r Tir Coch (1941) and Storiau'r Tir Du (1949) as ' the wretched new world ' closed in on it. The same vision gave rise
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian part in arranging for a tomb-stone to be erected. He married, 1 October 1941, in Tabernacl, Cardiff, a member of his church, Annie Lydia, only daughter of David and Jane Morgan, Cedrwydd, Treherbert, deputy headmistress of Penyrenglyn Primary School and secretary of Treherbert Cymrodorion Society. He died suddenly in Church Village Hospital, 27 October 1952 and was buried in Glyn-taf Crematorium.
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer column for poets in Seren Cymru, and was a member of the Carmarthenshire team of poets for the contests of Ymryson y Beirdd. He was also a prolific writer of prose, which may, possibly, prove to be more long-lasting. He published Rhamant Rhydwilym (1939), a useful sketch of the history of the cause (in conjunction with the secretary, John Absalom); Hen ddwylo (1941), containing portraits of 'characters
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), scientist engaged in scientific research in connection with the armed forces. He was elected F.R.S. in 1939. He was a scientific officer at the Royal Air Force establishment at Farnborough, 1939-41, director of research for the R.A.F. Coastal Command, 1941-42, scientific adviser to the Navy on methods of combating submarines, 1943-44, and assistant director of research in the Navy, 1944-45. He died 29 September
WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN (Baron Williams of Mostyn), (1941 - 2003), lawyer and politician Gareth Williams was born on 5 February 1941 near Prestatyn, Flintshire. He was the third child of Albert Thomas Williams (died 1964), a primary school headmaster, and his wife Selina (née Evans, died 1985). He had a sister, Catrin, and a brother John. Welsh was been the language of his home in Mostyn and, reputedly, he first learnt English with the aid of Linguaphone records. He was educated at
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian , becoming President of the Students' Representative Council in 1941-2, he studied Welsh and History, though he found the Welsh course too philological for his turn of mind, and came to think of himself as a historian rather than a potential candidate for the Baptist ministry. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, although he was an active member of the Officer Training Corps at Aberystwyth, he was
WILLIAMS, HUGH DOUGLAS (Brithdir; 1917 - 1969), teacher and artist Born 7 June 1917 in 8 Albert Street, Upper Bangor, Caernarfonshire, son of David Thomas Williams and Mary Jane (née Williams) his wife, but was brought up in 4 Regent Street after the family moved there. He won a scholarship to Friars School when he was ten years old, and went from there to Manchester School of Art in 1936, where he gained a teaching diploma in art in 1941. He was president of
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar (1968). As a devoted scholar he very rarely undertook any public duties apart from serving on learned bodies - as Chairman of the Board of Celtic Studies, 1941-58, President of the Anglesey Historical Society, 1939-54 and of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1949. He received the medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1938 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in the same
WILLIAMS, JOHN (J.W. Llundain; 1872 - 1944), slate merchant meetings in London. At his suggestion Y Ddolen, a newspaper for the London Welsh, was published in 1925, he himself being responsible for standards of language and grammar, with David Rowland Hughes as co-editor; its publication continued until January 1941. John Williams gave lectures and held classes on cynghanedd; he wrote a weekly column ' Ymhlith Cymry Llundain ' as well as articles on cynghanedd
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar Department of Welsh, he was awarded a University of Wales Fellowship which enabled him to spend two years in Dublin, where he laid the foundations of his profound Irish learning. He returned to Wales in 1941, embarking on a course of study for the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Wales at the denomination's Theological College at Aberystwyth, from which he graduated BD with Distinction in Church
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author October 1941 Kyffin enrolled as a student at the Slade School of Art, which had moved from London to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford because of the war. Whilst gazing at a picture of Piero della Francesca's 'Resurrection' in the Ashmolean, Kyffin experienced such an emotional response that he wept uncontrollably. As he recalled, this was his 'road to Damascus'. He realized for the first time that the act

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