Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, LLYWELYN (1911 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and politician U.S.A. He was president of the Association of Old Age Pensioners in Wales in 1963, and was chairman of the Labour Group of Welsh M.P.s. Despite leading a busy life he contributed to the Welsh press - ' Y Wers Gydwladol ' in Y Cyfarwyddwr, 1941-42, a tribute to Hugh Gaitskell in Barn in 1963, and ' Newyddion o'r Senedd ' to Y Cymro in 1964-65. He was the author of Hanes eglwys y Tabernacl, King's Cross
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic . Educated at King Henry VIII Grammar School in Abergavenny, Jim/Raymond, like Will/Matthew in Border Country, went on a state scholarship to study English at Cambridge in 1939. His period at Trinity College was interrupted by call up in 1941. He was commissioned in 1942 and fought with the No. 21 anti-tank regiment in the Normandy campaign and on through Belgium and the Netherlands to Germany. He attained
WILLIAMS, THOMAS OSWALD (ap Gwarnant; 1888 - 1965), Unitarian minister, author, poet and public figure the same local authority on four occasions (1940/41; 1941/42; 1950/51; 1959/60). He was granted the Freedom of the Borough in 1954. He represented the borough on the Court of Governors of the University of Wales and on Cardiganshire County Council in 1951, but he had previously been a co-opted member of the county education committee. He served as the chairman of many committees while a member of
WILLIAMS, WALDO GORONWY (1904 - 1971), poet and pacifist , productive and exciting ones in terms of poetic development, saw Waldo's personal life marked by loss and anguish. On 14 April, 1941 he married Linda Llewellyn in Blaenconin Chapel. His stance as a conscientious objector on pacifist grounds led to appearance before the South Wales Tribunal, sitting in Carmarthen in February 1942, when he was exempted from military service conditionally upon continuing in
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Crwys; 1875 - 1968), poet, preacher, archdruid published A brief history of Rehoboth Congregational Church, Bryn-mawr, from 1643 to 1927 (1927), and two volumes of reminiscences, Mynd a dod (1941) and Pedair Pennod (1950). Among his surviving MSS. is the material for an English volume, ' Hither and thither ', which corresponds, more or less, to Mynd a dod.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EWART (1894 - 1966), physicist and inventor worldwide authority on the subject. His monograph, Applications of interferometry (1928, 1930, 1941, 1948, 1951) which was translated into several languages is considered a standard work. In 1949 he sold his personal laboratory at Pasadena to the U.S. Air Force. He was involved with the Northrop Company in the invention of a special type of window for the Mercury project. In 1952-53 he was the chief
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1883 - 1954), quarryman, choir conductor, soloist and cerdd dant adjudicator 1915, where he established a successful choir before returning to his native area in 1921. He obtained work in Maenofferen quarry where he remained until his retirement in 1941, during which time he established mixed choirs, children's and cerdd dant choirs. The mixed choir and amateur orchestra performed a number of oratorios, including Messiah, Judas Maccabeus and Creation, and he used the vocal
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer lyrical poet, as was shown in his anthology of poems, Murmuron Newydd (1926), and his children's rhymes, Darlun a chân (1941). Before the end of his life, in recognition of his literary contribution, he was awarded an hon. M.A. degree by the University of Wales. There is an appreciation of him as a hymnist and poet, together with a list of all his publications in Bwletin Cymdeithas Emynau Cymru, I, no
WOOD, RONALD KARSLAKE STARR (1919 - 2017), botanist Ronald Wood was born on 8 April 1919 at 10 Union Street, Ferndale in the Rhondda Valley, the son of Percival Thomas Evans Wood (1891-1975), colliery fitter, and his wife Flossie (née Starr, 1893-1989). He attended Ferndale Grammar School, and in 1937 he gained a scholarship to Imperial College London, where he graduated with a first class degree in botany in 1941. A year spent assisting research
WOOLLER, WILFRED (1912 - 1997), cricketer and rugby player Wilfred Wooller was born at Wentworth, Church Road, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire, on 20 November 1912, the son of Wilfred Wooller, builder and contractor, and his wife Ethel (née Johnson, died 1924). He was educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, Rydal School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He married 1) Gillian Windsor-Clive (1922-1961) of St. Fagans Castle in 1941, divorced in 1946

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