Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1848 - 1918), architect, author and social reformer (including a national medal). He married Margaret Griffiths, and they had two children, Inigo Rees born in 1876 in Llantrisant, and Margaret Ann born in 1879 in Paddington. The 1881 census shows Robert a widower, lodging at Coggeshall, Essex, described as 'builder's manager'. Two years later, he married Elizabeth Ann Kettle at Braintree. His training was far from orthodox. Instead of the usual tradition of
WILLIAMS, WATKIN HEZEKIAH (Watcyn Wyn; 1844 - 1905), schoolmaster, poet, and preacher health for years before he died on 19 November 1905. He was buried in Gellimanwydd cemetery, Ammanford. A monument to him was erected by his students in the Gwynfryn chapel, and a memorial volume was written by Pennar Griffiths. While Watcyn Wyn by no means achieved greatness as a poet, preacher, or scholar, his fund of witticisms, his sound common-sense, and his genial personality made him a well
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1817 - 1900), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author , and was ordained at the Bridgend Association, 1848. In 1851 he went to Bethany (English) chapel, Swansea, where, apart from five years at Crickhowel, he spent the rest of his life. He died 10 November 1900. He was a popular preacher all his life, but it was as an author that he shone. His first book was Y Puritaniaid (Denbigh, 1860); after which appeared A Memoir of Wm. Griffiths, Gower (London
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM WYN (1876 - 1936), minister and poet .), Llanystumdwy; in 1921 he moved to Salem, Dolgellau, and thence to Glan-rhyd, Llanwnda in 1925. He published two volumes of poems Wrth Borth yr Awen (1909) and Caniadau (1911). A shy and musical person, he suffered ill health, and spent a year travelling through U.S.A. and Patagonia and climbing the Andes to recover his health. He married Kate Pritchard of Betws Garmon in 1927 and they had a son. He died 12
WYNN family Gwydir, the dominant party in Caernarvonshire, and it was only in the closing years of his life that the supremacy of his family and party in the county was threatened by the rivalry of the Griffiths of Cefn Amwlch, leaders of the conservative Llyn squires (see under Sir Richard Wynn, second baronet). He attempted to introduce the manufacture of Welsh friezes into the Vale of Conway, was interested in the
WYNNE, SARAH EDITH (Eos Cymru; 1842 - 1897), vocalist Union, was a brother, and Kate Wynne-Mattieson, vocalist, was a sister. Her last appearance was in 1874, in S. James's Hall. In 1875 she married an Armenian barrister-at-law, Aviet Agabeg. She died 24 January 1897, and was buried in Hampstead cemetery.

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