Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, ELIEZER (1754 - 1820), cleric, author, and schoolmaster Born at Pibwr Lwyd near Carmarthen, and christened in Llandyfaelog church, Carmarthenshire, 4 October 1754, eldest son (and second child) of Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) and Mary his wife. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's grammar school, Carmarthen, and matriculated in the University of Oxford from Jesus College, 3 April 1775. He was ordained deacon by bishop Yorke of S. Davids, 3 August 1777
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian turned down as unfit for military service when he presented himself for a medical at Pontypridd. In June 1941 he was awarded a First Class Honours degree, which gave him confidence to embark on an MA research project on the life of the sixteenth-century bishop Richard Davies. At Aberystwyth in the summer of 1941 he met his future wife, Fay Davies of Cardiff, a fellow history student slightly his junior
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author rector of S. Bennet Sherhog, 1612-6. At this time he aroused opposition by preaching against the Puritans. When he published his book, The Resolutions of Pilate, the bishop of London inhibited him from preaching but through the intervention of the archbishop of Canterbury he was appointed to the living of Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire. It was he who preached the funeral sermon at the burial of Sir
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582 - 1650), dean of Westminster, lord keeper of the great seal, archbishop of York James secured him the royal favour. In 1612 he became chaplain to lord-chancellor Ellesmere, his tutor in statesmanship. In 1620 the deanery of Westminster was added to his accumulation of benefices; and the next year the king appointed him lord keeper in succession to Bacon, and also bishop of Lincoln; he still retained the deanery. With the death of king James, the years of eclipse began. He
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith Wynn reports to his father that ' Williams has grown very high since the bishop of Lincoln is fallen' - why the 'fall' of his namesake the future archbishop should have caused this hauteur is not clear. Again (Rug Deeds in N.L.W., no. 759, and Cal. Wynn Papers, 588 and 615), we find him in 1615 taking a mortgage on Bachymbyd and other lands from William Salusbury of Rug. And we find from a codicil to
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1825 - 1904), cleric and author a Montgomeryshire man. Ordained in 1868 by the bishop of Llandaff, he was curate at Tredegar, Monmouth, 1868-76, spending the succeeding five years in London, where he acted as missionary among London Welsh people; he also appears to have worked in the parish of S. Stephen's, Spitalfields. In 1881 he returned to Wales as curate of Newcastle, Glamorgan, becoming, in 1883, rector of Penegoes
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1745/6 - 1818), cleric and schoolmaster ordained deacon by bishop Moss of S. Davids, 26 December 1768. He received priest's orders on 19 August 1770; and in January 1771, he went to Ross, Herefordshire, as curate and schoolmaster. He stayed there till the autumn of 1776, when his health broke down; but he returned to his native Cardiganshire and began to get better. When Edward Richard died in 1777, John Williams was appointed in his stead, on
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1792 - 1858), cleric, scholar, and schoolmaster subsequently at Hyde Abbey school, near that city. During this period he took holy orders, and in 1820, after the death of Eliezer Williams, he was offered the living of Lampeter by bishop Burgess. He accepted it, and continued the excellent work done by his predecessor. He was not chosen first principal of S. David's College, but his school so prospered that some boys were sent to him from Scotland
WILLIAMS, MORRIS (Nicander; 1809 - 1874), cleric and man of letters . in 1835 in the second class in 'Litterae Humaniores'; he took his M.A. in 1838. He was ordained deacon by the bishop of Chester in 1835, and priest by bishop Carey of S. Asaph in October 1836, having been licensed to Holywell as curate in April of that year. After a short period in Bangor diocese, he was re-licensed to Holywell in June 1838, but became curate of Bangor and Pentir in February 1840
WILLIAMS, PETER (1723 - 1796), Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator , Llangrannog, and Llandysilio Gogo, but his Methodism got him into trouble in his parishes and the bishop refused to make him a priest. He joined the Methodists in 1747 and began to tour the country, preaching. In 1748 he married Mary Jenkins of Llanlluan and, before long, settled at Gelli Lednais, Llandyfaelog, where he died 8 August 1796. Eliezer and Peter Bailey Williams were his sons. Peter Williams was
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, ROWLAND (1817 - 1870), cleric and scholar Born at Halkyn, Flintshire, 16 August 1817, second son of Rowland Williams (1779 - 1854) and Jane his wife. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he became Fellow of his college in 1839, B.A. in 1841, and M.A. in 1844. He spent a short time as assistant master at Eton, and was ordained deacon in 1842 and priest in 1843 by bishop Kaye of Lincoln. For eight years (1842-50) he was

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