Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JOHN JOHN (1884 - 1950), school-teacher, education administrator, producer and drama adjudicator Robert Williams Parry and they remained lifelong friends, J.J. being the poets best man at his wedding. Other contemporaries were H.D. Hughes, minister (CM) and Dr. Arthur Owen. After a period as a pupil-teacher he entered the Normal College, Bangor, in 1905. He was awarded the teacher's certificate (first class) in 1907. The same year he went as an assistant teacher to Granby Street elementary school
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795? - 1873), musician the famous harpist Parish-Alvars. In the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1838 she was awarded the prize offered by lady Llanover for the best collection of Welsh airs, this being the collection published in 1844 under the title of The Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg. She assisted John Parry (Bardd Alaw) to produce the Welsh Harper, whilst John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) also consulted her
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician Crofton Croker) were moved to the appendix. A number of the melodies collected by Williams, arranged for the palour and the stage, became 'national' by being included in collections like The Welsh Harper being an extensive collection of Welsh music in 1838 by John Parry (Bardd Alaw) and the four volumes of Welsh melodies arranged for the harp published between 1856 and 1874 by John Thomas (Pencerdd
WILLIAMS, MEIRION (1901 - 1976), musician William Robert Williams was born on 19 July 1901 in Glanywern, Dyffryn Ardudwy. He began to use the name 'Meirion' when a student and adopted it officially during the Second World War. He was the son of Robert Parry Williams and Mary Elizabeth (née Roberts), the father a shopkeeper and sub-postmaster. His dark colouring was attributed by some to Italian ancestry on his mother's side. Meirion
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1782 - 1818), composer of the hymn-tune 'Llanfair' also a musician of great repute. The tune which we now call ' Llanfair ' was at first called ' Bethel '; it is so called in Robert Williams's manuscript book, and is there dated 14 July 1817. It was first printed (again named ' Bethel') as harmonized by John Roberts (1807 - 1876) of Henllan, in the Peroriaeth Hyfryd (1837) of John Parry (1775 - 1846) His burial is recorded in Llanfechell parish
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766 - 1850), poet Born 6 December 1766, only child of William Williams and Jane (Parry) of Betws Fawr, a farm in the parish of Llanystumdwy. He probably received the usual education at a local school and was taught the poet's craft by some of the Eifionydd poets. He spent the greater part of his life as a substantial farmer, and had sufficient leisure to pursue such interests as Welsh literature, theology, music
WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT PARRY- - see PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT
WILLIAMS, WALDO GORONWY (1904 - 1971), poet and pacifist commitments. Most of the poems composed in the years up to 1939 did not appear at the time; many of these were in a light hearted vein. He published a series of poems in Y Ford Gron during the early 1930s; these included the lyric 'Cofio' (Remembrance) which was then included by T. H. Parry-Williams in Elfennau Barddoniaeth (The Elements of Poetry, part manual, part anthology) in 1935. This proved to be one
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Ap Caledfryn; 1837 - 1915), portrait painter his friends were Dr. Joseph Parry, T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn), and Owen Morgan (Morien). Ap Caledfryn painted landscapes in water-colour, but is better known for his portraits in oils, many of which are to be found in private hands in South Wales. Two portraits of his father are to be found, at Groes-wen, Caerphilly, and the Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans. He died at Groes-wen in 1915, and was
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, be given St Asaph on the death of Richard Parry (1623) also came to nothing, nor does he seem to have been presented to any of the four livings (including Aberdaron, vacant 1624) with which Williams had recently endowed the college, and for which Gwynn was considered. During the following years he was engaged in completing arrangements for bishop Williams's gift of a library to the college - the

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