Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM PRICHARD (1848 - 1916), co-founder of the Princes Road Presbyterian church, Bangor, and publisher of a new edition of Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr by Maurice Kyffin son of David Williams (born c. 1824) of Glasdo, Llan Ffestiniog, (a descendant of William Prichard of Clwchdyrnog, Anglesey), and his wife Ann Owen (c.1823-1867). He was born 21 July 1848. After getting a little education at a dame's school in the village, he obtained employment in the firm of J. and N. Phillips of Manchester, and spent the rest of his life travelling for it in North Wales. He
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RETLAW JEFFERSON (c.1863 - 1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian He was one of the remarkable children of Aberclydach, Llanfigan, Brecknockshire (see WILLIAMS, Alice Matilda). The father, John James Williams (died 31 March 1906), was a surgeon and a captain of the First Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers, and a member of the Gorsedd of Bards as 'Brychan'. The mother's maiden name was Jane Robertson. The main feat of the eldest son, Howell Price, was to traverse
WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM RICHARD (1879 - 1961), railway traffic inspector Born 18 March 1879 son of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Agnes his wife, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire. He married, 8 April 1902, Mabel Escott Melluish but had no children. Known in railway circles as ' the man who achieved a schoolboy's ambition to run a railway ', Sir William was educated in Cardiff and began his career with the Rhymney Railway Company in 1893 as a junior clerk. He was put in
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RICHARD (1896 - 1962), minister (Presb.) and Principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth Born 4 April 1896 at Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, son of Richard and Catherine Williams, his mother of the lineage of Siarl Marc of Bryncroes. He was educated at Penlleiniau church day-school and Pwllheli County School. He won a Mrs Clarke Scholarship, enabling him to enter University College, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with first-class honours in Greek and second class in philosophy. His
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SIDNEY GWYNN (1896 - 1978), musician and administrator Gwynn Williams was born at Plas Hafod, Llangollen on 4 April 1896, the son of W. Pencerdd Williams (1856-1924), a monumental mason who was also a musician and conductor of the Llangollen Choral Society. Gwynn's mother died before he reached the age of four. His father instructed him in tonic sol-fa, and he later became a Fellow of the Tonic Sol-fa College (FTSC). He qualified as a solicitor and
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM WYN (1876 - 1936), minister and poet
WILLIAMS, ZACHARIAH (1673 - 1755), medical practitioner, and inventor Father of Anna Williams. He was born at Rosemarket, Pembrokeshire, and practised for a time in South Wales. He was admitted a 'poor brother pensioner' of the Charterhouse, London, in 1729. His interests are indicated by the titles of his books: The Mariners Compass Compleated, 1740 and 1745; A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse, 1749; and
WILLIAMS, ZEPHANIAH (1795 - 1874), Chartist A native of Argoed, Bedwellty, Monmouth. He became a master-collier at Blaina, and (as it was usual for persons in his occupation to pay their men in public houses) he kept the Royal Oak Inn of that place. He was a free-thinker in religion, and ably defended his standpoint in A Letter to Benjamin Williams, 1831. The local Working Men's Association met at his house, and he became an active
WILLIAMS-ELLIS, JOHN CLOUGH (1833 - 1913), scholar, clergyman, poet and possibly the first Welshman to climb one of the highest mountains in the Alps Born 11 March 1833 in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, second son of John Williams-Ellis, clergyman, and his wife Harriet Ellen Clough of Denbigh. He was brought up in Brondanw, Llanfrothen, and later, when his father was inducted rector of Llanaelhaearn, in Glasfryn, Llangybi. He was educated in Rossall School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated 3rd Wrangler and was elected a fellow
WILLIAMS-WYNN, Sir ROBERT WILLIAM HERBERT WATKIN (1862 - 1951) - see WYNN
WILLIAMSON, ROBERT (MONA) (Bardd Du Môn; 1807 - 1852), teacher and poet a number of unpublished books. He published a history of Newborough (c. 1895) and a historical novel, Ceris y Pwll, 1908. The dates have been taken from his tombstone, but the rector of Newborough states that the only Owen Williamson recorded in the church registers was christened 26 February 1837. Perhaps this was a brother of the writer, who died before the latter was born; an ' Owen Williams
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter A member of the Wilson family of Bwlch-y-llyn and Y Ffinnant, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire., one of the old Welsh families of Arwystli. HUGH WILSON, M.A. (1651 - 1687), vicar Religion of Trefeglwys (1674) and also of Llangurig (1676), was the son of RICHARD (died 1688) and Joanna (died 1678) Wilson, Bwlch-y-llyn, Trefeglwys. He married (1679) Maria (died 1688), widow of William Lloyd, Maes-bangor

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