Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar Hengerdd, the poetry associated with the names of Aneirin, Taliesin and Llywarch Hen. It was this poetry, or subjects which shed some light on it, that engaged his attention from the age of 25 until a few years before his death. After graduating in 1906 he took ' Y Gododdin ', the poem attributed to Aneirin, the sixth century poet, as the subject of his M.A. dissertation, and published notes on the
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1833 - 1872), antiquary and lawyer : David Hughes, M.A., and his Free Grammar School at Beaumaris (Bangor, 1864); ' Penmynydd and the Tudors ' (Archæologia Cambrensis, 1869); Hen Blas (The Old Palace) in Beaumaris (Holyhead, 1869); and ' The History of Berw ' (Supplement, Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1915); other fruits of his labours are to be found in the National Library of Wales. He died 8 January
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1745/6 - 1818), cleric and schoolmaster of Llanfair Orllwyn; in 1795, perpetual curate of Blaenporth in June 1799, curate of Ystrad Meurig, in May 1804, vicar of Nantmel, near Rhayader, and at the same time to a canonry in Christ College, Brecon. He was known as ' Yr Hen Syr,' and between 1810 and 1815 he built a new schoolroom at Ystrad Meurig.
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Siôn Singer; c. 1750 - 1807), musician and Baptist minister subsequently to Bodedern, Anglesey, and later to Brynsiencyn, Anglesey; in 1784 he kept school at Ro Wen, near Conway, whence he went to Glasgoed, Llanrwst, where he founded a Baptist church. In 1787 he was at Aberdovey. In 1788 he was ordained Baptist minister of Penrhyn-coch and Aberystwyth. In 1792 he received a call to minister the Baptist church at Hên Dŷ Cwrdd, Swansea. He was the first in Wales to
WILLIAMS, JOHN HUW (1871 - 1944), newspaper editor , returning to Caernarfon (1942). He wrote a column ' Sibrydion yr Awel ', in Y Gwyliedydd Newydd. He was an actor, author of the play, Yr Hen Gojar (1925), pacifist, temperance advocate, and local preacher. He died 7 January 1944 at Caernarfon.
WILLIAMS, OWEN (GAIANYDD) (1865 - 1928), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Gymreig (Conway, 1910); Cymeriadau'r Hen Destament … (Conway, 1926).
WILLIAMS, PETER (1723 - 1796), Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator controversy with the Methodists, and it was during this period that his last books were published. They were: Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith, 1791; Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth, 1791; Dirgelwch Duwioldeb, 1792; and Gwreiddyn y Mater, 1794.
WILLIAMS, TALIESIN (1787 - 1847), poet and author . He published two English songs - Cardiff Castle, 1827, and The Doom of Colyn Dolphyn, 1837, with notes on the history of Glamorgan. He also wrote Welsh poems and won the chair in the Cardiff eisteddfod of 1834 for an awdl on 'Y Derwyddon' ('the Druids'). He left, in manuscripts, some essays, one of which was published in 1886, Traethawd ar Gywreinedd, Hynafiaeth, a Hen Bendefigion Glynn Nedd. His
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Myfyr Wyn; 1849 - 1900), blacksmith, poet and local historian Ifanc' (Aberdare, 1896, 2nd ed. 1906). His ' Llythyra Bachan Ifanc ' in Y Darian were very popular articles written in Gwentian dialect, and the editor compared them in their effect on the circulation of the paper to ' Llythyrau Hen Ffarmwr ' by Hiraethog in Yr Amserau. His brother, D. Williams (Myfyr Ddu), made a selection of his articles and poems, which he published in 1908, as a volume entitled
WYNN family Bodewryd, 4 May). His wife was Grace, daughter of John Griffith III, of Chwaen Hen, in Llanddyfnan. Their marriage settlement was drawn up on 1 November 1577. She later married William Bulkeley of Coedan, and was alive in 1629. John Edwards had a brother, Richard Edwards, who was a citizen and girdler of London. With John Edwards's heir, EDWARD WYNN, the family surname became established. In 1616 Edward
WYNNE family Voelas, chaplain to cardinal Wolsey, he was the father of Elis ap Rhys, i.e. Dr. Elis Prys (see also Vaughan family, Pant Glas). Their eldest son, MAURICE GETHIN, steward of the abbey of Aberconway, married Ann, daughter of David Myddelton ' Hen,' Gwenynog, receiver-general for North Wales in the time of Edward IV, and had a large family, the heir being CADWALADR WYNNE I, high sheriff of Denbighshire, 1548, who
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