Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Caledfryn; 1801 - 1869), Congregational minister, poet, and critic opposed the ideas of many contemporary poets and critics, and urged greater simplicity and directness in cynghanedd poetry. He supported the Liberal movement by speeches and pamphlets. He was prominent in the Anti-Corn-Law League, the Peace Society, and the Society for the Liberation of Religion. He opposed Sir James Graham's Factory Bill in 1843 and gave evidence on behalf of Nonconformists before
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EMYR (1889 - 1958), solicitor and eisteddfod patron Park grammar school, Wrexham, and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he gained his LL.B. in 1911. He took an active part in several college societies, including the Liberal Society of which he was secretary. On the outbreak of World War I he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers and served as a lieutenant under Allenby in Palestine. His services were retained by the army for some months after
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM LLEWELYN (1867 - 1922), Member of Parliament, lawyer, and author Liberal of the old school, and had no use for socialism. From his Oxford days until his death, he was, above all, a nationalist; and it was on nationalistic grounds rather than on the ground of religious liberationism that he supported the disestablishment and disendowment of the Established Church in Wales. Moreover, he was an advocate of home rule for Wales (and for Ireland, Brittany, and Flanders
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author Wyndham-Quin, MP for South Glamorgan, 1895-1906. Publications: Experiences in spiritualism with D.D. Home, 1871; The Great divide: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone, 1876; The Irish Question, 1880; The Soudan: its history, geography and characteristics, 1884; The Labour Question, 1885; Self-instruction in the practice and theory of Navigation, 1900; No Army, No Empire, 1901; Ireland and Scotland under
WYNN family Wynnstay, . He was M.P. for Denbighshire from May to November 1885 but the constituencies were restructured before the general election in December to create two constituencies in place of a single two-member seat. He stood as candidate in east Denbigh but was defeated by the Liberal candidate, George Osborne Morgan and though he stood again in 1886 and 1892 he was not successful and the Wynnstay family lost
YALE family Plâs yn Iâl, Plas Grono, East India Co. He became governor there (1687-99), returning with a fortune of £200,000, to live alternately in London (as a governor of the Company) and at Plas Grono, where he was a liberal benefactor of Wrexham church and a creditor of Josua Edisbury; but he is best known for the benefactions (1714-21) of books, pictures, etc., sent by him at the request of Cotton Mather, to the college at New
YATES, WILFRID NIGEL (1944 - 2009), archivist and historian University of Hull, where he graduated MPhil in History and was awarded a doctorate in 1968. During his time at Hull he became an Anglo-Catholic, and was also active in student politics as a Liberal. Both his Christian faith and his politics remained vitally important to him throughout his life. Following his PhD he took post-doctoral fellowships at Exeter (1968-1969) and Southampton (1969-1970), but

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