Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, PHILIP (d. 1717), genealogist his son LLEWELYN WILLIAMS (who was buried 20 November 1740). For the titles of some of the poems (including one by ' Richard Edwards y prydydd o Wynedd') see volume one of N.L.W. Schedule of Penrice and Margam Muniments, 1942. For further details of the family see D. Rhys Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 1925; see also G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 224.
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, STEPHEN JOSEPH (1896 - 1992), Welsh scholar had wide scholarly interests but his most important contributions were as one of the pioneers of modern studies of medieval Welsh law (the Law of Hywel Dda) - his edition, jointly with J. Enoch Powell, Llyfr Blegywryd, appeared in 1942, 1961 - and as the editor of number of Medieval Welsh prose texts, Ffordd y Brawd Odrig, 1929, and the Welsh translations of Old French Charlemagne epics, Ystoria de
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 JONES (1863 - 1949), civil servant, secretary of Kodak Limited, treasurer of Coleg Harlech and Urdd Gobaith Cymru wife Mary Williams (1873 - 1942), of London and formerly Ruthin, whom he married in 1903, was mountaineering. He climbed in north Wales and the Alps with such pioneers as Owen Glynne Jones, Roderick Williams, J.M. Archer Thomson, and G.D. and A.P. Abraham; he had joined the Alpine Club in 1903 and was also a member of the Climbers' Club. He was a contributor to S.H. Hamer, Dolomites (1910, 2nd ed
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer editors of Y Lladmerydd (1922-26), and editor of Yr Efengylydd (1916-33), and Trysorfa'r Plant (1934-47). He composed many hymns for children, indeed there was scarcely anyone more successful than he as a hymn writer for children. These hymns were published in three collections, Moliant Plentyn, part I (1920) and part II (1927), and Clychau'r Gorlan (1942). Many of his fine, inspired hymns are to be
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor Born in Llanfairfechan, Caernarfonshire, 12 December 1924, the elder of the 2 sons of William Henry Williams and his wife Margaret (née Pritchard). He was educated at Llanfairfechan national school, 1928-35, Friars School, Bangor, 1935-42, University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1942-47 (B.A., 1st.-class hons. History, 1945), University of London, 1947-48 (diploma in archive elect studies
WOOLLER, WILFRED (1912 - 1997), cricketer and rugby player wickets for 69 runs in the victory over the West Indies in 1939. Whilst serving in south-east Asia during the Second World War, he was captured in 1942 and held captive for the rest of the war at the notorious Changi prison in Singapore. After the war he resumed his cricketing career and assisted Johnnie Clay's efforts to rebuild the Glamorgan club. He became the assistant secretary in 1946 and captain

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