Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Rees Williams was born on 22 November 1903, the only child of William Rees Williams, a veterinary surgeon, and Jennet David, of Garthcelyn, Bridgend. Through his father, he was related to Elizabeth Williams, the Maid of Sker. Educated at Mill Hill School and the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, he qualified as a solicitor in October 1929, being Honoursman of the Law Society. A
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor system' represented by George Lewis. Moreover, as is clear from the biographies of Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) and of John Jones (1796 - 1857) of Tal-y-sarn, the study of the Equity was not confined to his own denomination. During the 19th century three men were responsible for a new theological approach within three denominations in Wales : they were Edward Williams of Rotherham the Independent
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (1890 - 1963), politician in 1945 and was created K.C.M.G. in 1952. He remained loyal to the Labour Party throughout his life. He married in 1916 Evelyn, daughter of David James, Lanelay, Pontypridd. They had two daughters. He died 16 May 1963 at his home Canberra, 107 Grove Road, Bridgend, Glamorgan, and his remains were cremated at Thornhill Crematorium.
WILLIAMS, ELIEZER (1754 - 1820), cleric, author, and schoolmaster was buried at Lampeter. He wrote a number of works in English (see the list in D.N.B.); a collection of these was published in 1840 by his son, St. George Armstrong Williams. While he was at Lampeter, he opened a school there and prepared young men for holy orders; he was eminently successful in this work. He married (1), 1792, Anne Adelaide Grebert of Nancy, Lorraine, France; they had one child
WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner Powell Duffryn, Rhymney Iron and Coal, Welsh Associated Collieries, Great Western Railway and Lloyd's Bank. He was also a vice-president of the Federation of British Industries and served on a number of official or technical organisations connected with the coal industry. He married in 1903 Charlotte Mary, daughter of David Lackie, J.P. of Montrose. There were no children. In 1922-23 he was High
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher He was one of the five remarkable sons of David Williams, a Calvinistic Methodist exhorter in Cardiganshire. The father was a blacksmith and he is said to have practised his craft at Swyddffynnon, Esgair near Llangwyryfon, and Pen-y-graig, Llanrhystud. He may have moved to meet the needs of the Mabws and Ffos-y-bleiddiaid estates. The children were probably born at Swyddffynnon, but in 1777 the
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1816? - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and artist , including Eben Fardd, David Jones, (Treborth), and Edward Morgan (Dyffryn), but his best work was done in landscape, especially in his pictures of mountain and lake scenery. Between October 1848 and October 1849 he wrote articles on painters and painting to the Traethodydd. He died 2 October 1878, aged 62, and was buried at Caeathro, near Caernarvon. [See article on Prichard, John William.]
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), physicist Evan James Williams was born on 8 June 1903 at Brynawel, Cwmsychbant, Cardiganshire, the youngest of three sons born to James Williams (1868-1950), stonemason, and his wife Elizabeth (Bes) (née Lloyd, 1870-1948). He was known amongst his friends by the nickname 'Desin' because of his proficiency with decimal numbers. He attended Llanwenog School and Llandysul County School before winning a
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), scientist Born 8 June 1903 at Cwmsychpant, Cardiganshire, the son of James Williams, mason and Elizabeth (née Lloyd), his wife. He proceeded from the primary school at Llanwenog to the county school at Llandysul, and from there to the University College of Swansea, where he took a first-class honours degree in physics in 1923. He pursued scientific researches at Swansea, Manchester and Cambridge, and had
WILLIAMS, FREDERICK GEORGE ROBERTSON (d. 1945), landowner - see WILLIAMS, ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND
WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN (Baron Williams of Mostyn), (1941 - 2003), lawyer and politician working as a schoolteacher in north Wales, he was admitted to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1965 but did the first part of his pupillage in the Temple before completing it in Swansea, where he remained for thirteen years. He moved to London upon taking silk in 1978, and became a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 1979 he acted for George Deakin, a co-defendant in the Jeremy Thorpe case. Deakin's acquittal
WILLIAMS, GEORGE (1879 - 1951), company director and Lord Mayor of Cardiff

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