Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1824 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author , but in 1855 moved to Talsarnau, where he married (producing a large family) and opened a shop. He was ordained in 1857. He is chiefly remembered for his dry wit. He also wrote entertainingly in the periodicals, and published three books: Cofiant y Parch. Richard Humphreys, Dyffryn, 1873; Yr Hynod William Ellis, Maentwrog, 1875 (the story of an old elder); and Bwthyn fy Nhaid Oliver, 1880, 2nd ed
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar . degree for a dissertation on ' The verbal forms in the Mabinogion and Bruts '. In the meantime, with the encouragement of J.H. Davies and with the assistance of an additional scholarship he set about studying the Llanover manuscripts, which were donated to the National Library in 1917. That is how he began to take an interest in the life and work of Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), which became the
WILLIAMS, GWILYM (1839 - 1906), judge Born at Ynyscynon, Aberdare, elder son of David Williams (Alaw Goch) and his wife, Ann, the sister of William Morgan (1819 - 1878), poet. He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school, the Normal College, Swansea, and in France. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple, 1863, and in the same year, on the death of his father, a wealthy landowner, as the proprietor of the Miskin estate with valuable
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.) Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff. He was a person of wide culture and interests, and he was prominent in the life of his denomination, being Moderator of the General Assembly (1948) and Moderator of the North Wales Association (1956). He was also chairman both of the Forward Movement and of the Praise Committee of his Connexion. He took a great interest in hymns and hymn tunes, and co-operated with E.T. Davies
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist other hand are the persistent traditions about the quasi-miraculous wonders of ' Cae'r Fendith ' (the Field of Blessing); Joshua Thomas the historian had a good look at the field in 1745; Dr. William Richards gave a prominent place to the story in his Cambro-British Biography, and David Davies (1849 - 1926) a more prominent place still in his biography of Vavasor Powell. Henry Maurice, in 1675, said
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator ; WILLIAM WILLIAMS became a lieutenant in the Brazilian navy and died in 1832; and CATHERINE ANNE WILLIAMS married, in May 1840, the statesman, Richard Cobden, with whom she had become acquainted through being in school with his sisters. The father, who was a timber merchant at Machynlleth from 1799 onwards, was also interested in industrial speculation. His attempt to develop slate quarrying at Tan-y
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author William Morris were on occasional visiting terms; but when Hugh Williams wrote to Richard Morris (Additional Letters of the Morrises of Anglesey (1735-86), p. 624) in 1764 it was as one stranger to another. It is not easy to see how William Elias could have been Hugh Williams's instructor in poetry, as suggested by J. H. Davies - all we know for certain is that Elias had criticised some of Williams's
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Cadfan; 1807? - 1870), printer and journalist to edit the paper until October 1850, when it was removed to London. Cadfan is next found in London holding the office of reader in the employ of the publisher John Cassell. He was friendly with John Jones (Talhaiarn) and William Jones (Gwrgant) and acted as secretary to the 'Talhaiarn Annuity Fund' during 1863-5. Papers relating to this fund as well as a holograph letter of Cadfan are contained in
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Hywel Cernyw; 1843 - 1937), Baptist minister, writer, and poet jointly by him and Owen Davies of Caernarvon; and Christ the Centre, 1902 (a book of English sermons). He also published a number of tracts. He died 3 May 1937, and was buried in Corwen cemetery.
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1862 - 1953), minister (Presb.), and Biblical commentator Davies Lecture, The God-man. He visited Germany and learned German to a fair level. He returned to Anglesey and was ordained in 1897. Between 1901 and 1923 he published a series of eight or nine commentaries on New Testament books which proved to be very popular in Sunday schools. The Doctrine of Atonement was his field of study over many years and he delivered the Davies Lecture on that subject in
WILLIAMS, HUW OWEN (Huw Menai; 1886 - 1961), poet Born 4 Rathborne Court, Caernarfon 13 July 1886, registered as the son of Elizabeth Williams and her husband William Williams, slate-quarryman, though it has been suggested that his natural father may have been one Hugh Owen. He left school at the age of twelve but continued to read widely and worked at various short-term jobs to help support himself and his mother. At the age of sixteen he went
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar scholars. William Salesbury's orthography and vocabulary were the subjects of two articles (Y Drysorfa, 1946, 1949). In another article he maintained that the date of publication of the first Welsh printed book was 1547, not 1546 as stated on the title page. (But in this he was mistaken, see BBCS, xxiii). All these studies however were peripheral. The central topic of Ifor William's research was the

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