Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1870 - 1951), schoolmaster Born 18 February 1870 in Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, one of the 13 children of Thomas Williams, collier, and his wife. Though he began work as a boy in the mines he showed early ability and in 1882 he won the Gelligaer Scholarship to Lewis' School, Pengam. The register of that school notes Bargod Board School as his previous school and his father's address as Greenfield Terrace, Bargoed. He was
WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Born 3 February 1870 at Tal-y-bont, in the Vale of Conwy, where his father John Williams was Calvinistic Methodist minister. The family moved to Old Colwyn in 1882. Llewelyn Williams was educated at the Tal-y-bont primary school and at Old Colwyn (where he was a contemporary of Thomas Gwynn Jones) and at a private residential school at Llandudno. In 1885 he was apprenticed in a chemist's shop in
WILLIAMS, DAVID MATTHEW (Ieuan Griffiths; 1900 - 1970), scientist, dramatist and inspector of schools Llanelli in 1947. S.M. Powell, the English master at Tregaron, had fostered in him a love of literature and while at college encouraged by R. Idwal M. Jones, he wrote two plays, Lluest y Bwci and Ciwrat yn y pair. Later he wrote Dirgel ffyrdd, Awel dro and others for the Swansea Drama Week Company, and at least eleven plays under the pen-name 'Ieuan Griffiths', including Tarfu'r colomennod, and Dau
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian ), Cilfowyr, John Gomer Lewis (1844 - 1914), and David Price (1865 - 1931), both of Swansea, and Anthony Williams (1845 - 1913), Ystrad Rhondda; and also Rhys Jones Lloyd (1827 - 1904), the son of Bronwydd mansion, Llangynllo, the rector of Troed-yr-aur, and his troubled Independent neighbour Thomas Cynfelyn Benjamin (1850 - 1925), Pen-y-graig, upon whose grave in Llethr-ddu cemetery Trealaw D.P.W. played a
WILLIAMS, EDMUND (1717 - 1742), early hymnist of the Methodist revival hymns printed by S. Mason of Pontypool in 1741, and another collection of his hymns was published posthumously in 1742 by Felix Farley, of Bristol. According to Edmund Jones he also published 'something against dancing.' He died in April, and was buried 17 April 1742.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor church, and it was then thought that he might try the law, and so he went to Caerwys grammar school, where Thomas Jones, later of Denbigh (1756 - 1820) was one of his contemporaries. But he changed his mind once more and returned home. When he was in this state of indecision he heard Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho preach, and joined the Methodists - years afterwards (1773) Edmund Jones noted in his diary
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Morgan. He also had the opportunity to read Welsh manuscripts. Thomas Richards, Coychurch, and John Walters, Llandough, must be listed among his teachers - and this accounts for the great interest which he took in the vocabulary of the Welsh language. Thus it was that he began to grow into a Welsh scholar. He learnt his father's craft, that of a stonemason. He journeyed in North Wales c. 1771-2 and, in
WILLIAMS, ELISEUS (Eifion Wyn; 1867 - 1926), poet the ministry. In 1907 he married Ann Jones of Efail Bach, Aber-erch. He wrote a great deal of poetry both in the classical and 'free' forms - awdlau, cywyddau, englynion, lyrics, hymns, and satires - and won a number of chairs in local and provincial eisteddfodau, as well as prizes at the national eisteddfod, at which he also acted as an adjudicator. His best known work in the classical form is an
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer ' of his early days at the foot of the Prescelly hills; Tua'r cyfnos (1943), a prize-winning novel in a competition held by Llyfrau'r Dryw; a biography of Thomas Phillips, 1868-1936 (1946), Principal of the Baptist College Cardiff Dan y sêr, a programme presented by Urdd y Seren Fore at the Assembly of the Baptist Union of Wales at Brynaman, 1948; and two travel books, Crwydro Sir Benfro (1958, 1960
WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner Born 2 July 1871, son of Thomas Williams, colliery owner, of Llwyn Gwern, Pontarddulais, Glamorganshire. Educated at Christ College, Brecon, and Clare College, Cambridge, he returned to Carmarthenshire in 1892 to assist in his father's colliery company. His election in 1913 as chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners Association marked the beginning of a long period of prominence
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher father was living at Pen-y-graig, and the Calvinistic Methodists of that district used to meet at his house until their chapel at Rhiw-bwys was built. Reckoning from the record of his death, Evan Williams was born in 1749. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig grammar school under Edward Richard, like his brothers, John ('the old Sir,' 1745/6 - 1818), Thomas, DAVID (warden of Hungerford almshouse, rector of
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1719 - 1748), Congregational minister and revivalist the licence of 1744. He went to Carmarthen Academy in 1745 and received a grant of two pounds from the Congregational Board on 5 October 1747. He died 20 August 1748 after a long illness following upon his Caernarvonshire journey. Edmund Jones, Pontypool, said that he was unequalled as a preacher, a devoted Scripture student, and that, had he lived he would have been famous throughout Wales as a

Search results

2725 - 2736 of 2896 for "Thomas Jones"