Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, PETER (Pedr Hir; 1847 - 1922), Baptist minister, author, and eisteddfodwr Born 1 May 1847 at Byrdir, Llanynys parish, Vale of Clwyd. His father, Thomas Williams, was a cousin of Sir Charles James Watkin Williams. He frequented the school of J. D. Jones, the musician; in 1868 he was at a Ruthin eisteddfod, enjoying the company of such varied characters as Nefydd, Talhaiarn, and Llew Llwyfo. He tried his hand at several occupations before joining the Denbighshire police
WILLIAMS, PETER BAILEY (1763 - 1836), cleric and writer -rug and Llanberis, where he spent the rest of his life; in addition, he was for some years (1815-25?) perpetual curate of Betws Garmon. He married (1) Hannah Jones of Llanrwst (died 1835) in September 1804, by whom he had a son, HENRY BAILEY WILLIAMS (1805 - 1879), rector of Llanberis (1836-43) and Llan-rug (1843-79); and (2) Charlotte Hands (widow) of Shrewsbury (died 1849) in November 1835. He was
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (d. 1724), Baptist minister pastor of the combined churches of Olchon, Llanigon, and Trosgoed (Maes-y-berllan) - the last named only recently founded, and he remained there until his death at an advanced age in 1724. Joshua Thomas could not recollect that he had left issue. He was a prominent member of the new Welsh Baptist Association, and, at Swansea in 1704, he was one of the first to preach at its annual meetings, but it
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1747 - 1811), cleric and man of letters graduated. He was rector of Machynlleth, 1789-1805, and of Llanferres, 1805-11; he died suddenly 4 June 1811. Whether he graduated or not, it is clear that he had the scholar's temperament; he translated Seneca's tragedy, Medea, into English, and left manuscript translations into Latin of Gray's poems, and other writings. But he is chiefly remembered as Thomas Pennant's friend, and as the translator of
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (Gwydderig; 1842 - 1917), collier and poet Gurnos Jones (Gurnos), another poet, he began to compile a dictionary giving examples of cynghanedd. It does not appear that a collected edition of his poems was published; they must, therefore, be sought in newspapers and journals of his time - there are some examples in the articles in Y Geninen noted below. He died 30 March, and was buried 4 April 1917 in the burial ground attached to Gibea chapel
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads Merthyr by the sale of his ballads. And tradition has it that his 'Song on the effect of the new law, or The Workhouse' (for this see B. B. Thomas, below, 93-6) caused such an uproar among the working classes of Merthyr that the Guardians did not dare to build a workhouse in that town for nearly twenty years; he also sang during the Rebecca riots. Of his ballads, seventy-three survive in print, and
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1802 - 1842), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Liverpool. In 1830 he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hughes of Liverpool (1758 - 1828) in 1834 he gave up his school in order to become a Calvinistic Methodist preacher. He was ordained in 1835 at Bala, and spent the rest of his life as minister of Rose Place chapel, Mulberry Street, Liverpool. He was one of the founders of the Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Mission Society and, as first
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766 - 1850), poet wrote for her is one of the most poignant in the language. Robert was friendly with the eisteddfodic poets, but after the one occasion when he failed to win the prize he never competed. He and John Richard Jones of Ramoth were staunch friends, and he assisted the latter to publish his hymn-books. His connection with Dewi Wyn, his neighbour and former pupil, is commemorated in the name of a
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1810 - 1881), cleric, Celtic scholar and antiquary Ordinale de Vita Sancti Mereadoci) which was edited, with translation, by Whitley Stokes (London, 1872). In 1876 was completed the first volume of his Selections from the Hengwrt Manuscripts, and in 1878 and 1880 the first two parts of the second volume appeared. This second volume was completed in 1892 by the Rev. G. Hartwell Jones. Neither the texts nor the translations in these two volumes are always
WILLIAMS, ROBERT ARTHUR (Berw; 1854 - 1926), cleric and poet prepare for holy orders. He was ordained deacon by bishop Campbell of Bangor, 4 June 1882, and licensed to the curacy of Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Merioneth, where Thomas Edwards (Gwynedd) was rector. He was ordained priest, 8 March 1884, and, in November 1888, went as rector to Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire. From there, in May 1891, he was appointed by bishop D. L. Lloyd vicar of Betws Garmon
WILLIAMS, ROBERT DEWI (1870 - 1955), minister (Presb.), headmaster of Clynnog School and writer . ed. 1948); he is considered to be the pioneer of this type of story in Welsh. He also wrote for periodicals, and some of his articles in Y Drysorfa were collected under the title Dyddiau mawr mebyd in 1973. In 1908 he married Helena Jones Davies, and they had a son. He died 25 January 1955 at Rhuddlan.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT JOHN (PRYSOR; 1891 - 1967), collier and actor national eisteddfod in 1928 he met two people who were to influence his life greatly, namely Daniel Haydn Davies, who became a producer of school programmes for the B.B.C., and also one who became a lifelong friend, namely David Moses Jones, a collier and actor like himself. In 1936 Thomas Rowland Hughes, the novelist and producer, invited both of them to take part in a radio play, and for the next 30

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