Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator . The warrant to search his letters in 1843 gives him a London address at 65 Hatton Gardens, London. He is later stated to be practising at 4, Verulam Buildings. He married (date not ascertained) Anne Jones of Plwmp-coch, Kidwelly, a woman twenty-five years older than himself. For some time he lived at Kidwelly. His wife possessed at St Clears an estate called Gardde, part of which was held on a
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan ap Ioan; 1800 - 1871), Baptist minister and author Born at Trwyn-swch, Llanddoged, Denbighshire, 1800, son of John and Jane Williams. He was baptized at Llanrwst, where his mother was a member, and started to preach at the age of 25 at Cefnbychan, where he kept school. He was a student at Abergavenny, 1828-31, and although he spent some months on probation at Penrhyn-coch, it was from Aberduar that he received his first and only 'call.' He was
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Siôn Singer; c. 1750 - 1807), musician and Baptist minister subsequently to Bodedern, Anglesey, and later to Brynsiencyn, Anglesey; in 1784 he kept school at Ro Wen, near Conway, whence he went to Glasgoed, Llanrwst, where he founded a Baptist church. In 1787 he was at Aberdovey. In 1788 he was ordained Baptist minister of Penrhyn-coch and Aberystwyth. In 1792 he received a call to minister the Baptist church at Hên Dŷ Cwrdd, Swansea. He was the first in Wales to
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (fl. end of the 18th century), attorney, outstanding figure in the copper industry As son (born 13 May 1737) of Owen Williams of Cefn Coch in Llansadwrn, who owned also Tregarnedd and Treffos, and his wife, the daughter of Hendre Hywel by Llangefni, it was comparatively easy for Thomas Williams to become intimate with the great men of Anglesey; it was he who straightened out the tangled estate of Bodior; he spent years in getting reason out of the stubborn people at Plas Coch
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1738 - 1817) Llandygái, antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry Born 1 March 1738 at Trefdraeth in Anglesey, of poor parents. For some time he worked as a weaver, then followed his long apprenticeship as a saddler at Llannerch-y-medd. He became one of the bardic disciples of Hugh Hughes ('y Bardd Coch') and quite friendly with Robert Hughes (the bard Robin Ddu yr Ail); through his friendship with Robin Ddu he became a corresponding member of the London
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Carw Coch; 1808 - 1872), eisteddfodwr and man of letters eisteddfod was held at the Stag, and from that time on the 'Free Enquirers' became the 'Cymreigyddion of the Carw Coch' (Red Stag). People like Alaw Goch, Dr. Thomas Price, and, indeed, all the local poets and writers took part in the Carw Coch eisteddfod, which continued as an institution for many years. The fruit of one of the series (1853) was the volume Gardd Aberdâr, 1854, which contains, among other
Y BARDD COCH O FÔN - see HUGHES, HUGH

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