Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID (1877 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister and college tutor , Margaret Catherine Owen of Holyhead. who survived him. His early death had precluded his elevation to the upper ranks of the hierarchy; but he was ' Davies Lecturer ' in 1920 - his lecture, on ' The Spiritual Gospel ' (i.e. the Johannine writings) remains unpublished. He had published commentaries on Galatians and 2 Corinthians, and was one of the company which produced revised Welsh versions of
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born at Is-coed, Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, son of William Dafydd. Richard William Dafydd, the exhorter, was his brother. As a young man he came to Glamorgan to work for Christopher Bassett, junior of Aberthaw, and began to exhort in the Methodist societies c. 1742. It is not certain whether he was the David Williams who was appointed a ' private exhorter ' at the Watford Association, 1743
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709 - 1784), Independent minister Born in 1709, the second son of William and Catherine David, Pwll-y-pant (between Caerphilly and Llanbradach) - the family was well-to-do. He was educated at Carmarthen Academy under Perrott, and in 1734 was ordained minister of Trinity (English) chapel, Cardiff. The congregation of Trinity was small and moribund, but David Williams (like his predecessor) ministered to the Independents scattered
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1702 - 1779), early Welsh Moravian Born in Llandwrog parish, Caernarfonshire, 2 August 1702. In 1728 at latest, he was a bookbinder in London. He and his wife joined the Moravian society in 1739. She died 5 December 1766, and at the end of 1767 he decided to return to his native region. It was he who brought Mrs. Alice Griffith (see Griffith, William, 1719 - 1782) into contact with Moravianism, and got David Mathias sent to north
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister Born January 1796 in the parish of Llanwnnen, Cardiganshire. He attended the chapel at Aberduar where his step-father, David Davies, ministered. After courses at the Castell-hywel grammar school and Bristol Academy he had charge for a short time of the preparatory school for preachers associated with the Tabernacle, Carmarthen; it was said that he knew Latin and Greek as well as he knew Welsh and
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Alaw Goch; 1809 - 1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr all classes. He spent considerable sums of money in helping on the movement to establish the national eisteddfod alternately in North and South Wales, attending meetings at his own expense in both districts (D. M. Richards, Rhestr Eisteddfodau, xxv-xxvii). He was married in S. John's parish church, Aberdare, 3 August 1837, to Ann Morgan, a sister of William Morgan (1819 - 1878) and their early home
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer Born in 1738 at Waunwaelod (later the Carpenters' Arms), in the parish of Eglwysilan, near the Watford chapel, on a by-road between Caerphilly and Cardiff. His father was William David (born at Llwynybarcud, in the parish of Llanharry). He was educated at a school kept in the neighbourhood by his namesake, David Williams (1709 - 1784), Dissenting minister of the Trinity chapel, Womanby Street
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer Christian nationalist that D.J. took to writing. Basically he was a pastoral writer, the recorder of visual memories. He was in his middle age and early old-age when he produced the works which will be of lasting value. Like his hero, William Llewelyn Williams, he held a deep love for the rural life of Carmarthenshire, but he did not rest content with sentimentality. He saw the Wales that he found worth
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 PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian Canmlwyddiant Libanus … braslun o'r hanes (1950). From his early days he was active in rescuing the libraries of famous men and contemporaries, and at times using the material as a basis for biographies, e.g. his grandfather ' Gwynionydd '; David James, ' Defynnog ' (1865 - 1928), Lewis Jones, the musician of Treherbert (died 1882), William Evans Davies (1861 - 1945), Dre-fach, Rees Price (died 1896
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Rees Williams was born on 22 November 1903, the only child of William Rees Williams, a veterinary surgeon, and Jennet David, of Garthcelyn, Bridgend. Through his father, he was related to Elizabeth Williams, the Maid of Sker. Educated at Mill Hill School and the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, he qualified as a solicitor in October 1929, being Honoursman of the Law Society. A
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor and reading voraciously - so much so that for a time he came under the influence of William Llewelyn of Leominster's unorthodox views; but he returned to the old paths and in 1775 was ordained minister at Ross. In 1777 he received a call to Oswestry. In addition to working as a minister he kept a school, and was on the point of converting this into a private Academy when he was invited to amalgamate

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