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, PHILIP (d. 1717), genealogist his son LLEWELYN WILLIAMS (who was buried 20 November 1740). For the titles of some of the poems (including one by ' Richard Edwards y prydydd o Wynedd') see volume one of N.L.W. Schedule of Penrice and Margam Muniments, 1942. For further details of the family see D. Rhys Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 1925; see also G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 224.
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, SAMUEL (c. 1660 - c. 1722), cleric and author published in 1707. In 1710 he published Undebyn Orchymmynedig i Ymarfer, another translation from the original English book by Dr. D. Phillips, rector of Maenor Deifi (Manordivy). He was also responsible for translating the index to the 1718 S.P.C.K. Bible. He also translated other books, but these are still in manuscript; they are: ' Gofal Tylwyth neu Ddyled Pennau Teuluoedd,' Erasmus Saunders
WILLIAMS, WALDO GORONWY (1904 - 1971), poet and pacifist ' (region of brotherhood). Although the poem's main thrust is clear it is more challenging and difficult in terms of imagery and expression than his earlier poems, confirming an emerging pattern in the post-1939 poetry, and reflecting the poet's wish to align with D. Gwenallt Jones and Saunders Lewis in breaking free from the conventional lyric and sonnet forms. But the period from 1939 onwards
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Myfyr Wyn; 1849 - 1900), blacksmith, poet and local historian Ifanc' (Aberdare, 1896, 2nd ed. 1906). His ' Llythyra Bachan Ifanc ' in Y Darian were very popular articles written in Gwentian dialect, and the editor compared them in their effect on the circulation of the paper to ' Llythyrau Hen Ffarmwr ' by Hiraethog in Yr Amserau. His brother, D. Williams (Myfyr Ddu), made a selection of his articles and poems, which he published in 1908, as a volume entitled
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EMYR (1889 - 1958), solicitor and eisteddfod patron the Gorsedd and Eisteddfod Association became more apparent. Emyr Williams's ' vision and drive proved a great asset to the Joint Committee which strove for the fusion of the two societies into one governing body; his quiet firmness and legal acumen were invaluable in helping to frame a just, comprehensive and workable constitution for the Council in 1937 '. Sir D. Owen Evans was elected chairman
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies harpist frequently encountered at Glanbrân; (b) JEREMIAH WOOD, harpist, buried at Llanrwst; (c) ADAM WOOD, harpist (father of the harpist GODFREY WOOD), who was buried at S. Asaph; (d) SAIFORELLA WOOD, mother of the MATTHEW (' MATCHO ') WOOD, from whom Sampson obtained much of his recorded gipsy folk-lore - Matthew died at Bala, 2 March 1929, 'aged 86,' and was buried at Llanycil. (4) JEREMIAH WOOD (or
WYNN family Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, details see an article (by E. D. Jones) in N.L.W. Jnl., vi, 176-81.
WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669? - 1736), cleric and translator '; this is proved by the absence of his name from D. R. Thomas, Hist. of the Diocese of St. Asaph, and by reference to the translator and his work in note 2701 in W. M. Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accounts, 1666-1753 (Horncastle, 1931), where it is shown that the sum of 18s. 6d. was paid to ' Mr. Griffith Wynn, Clearke, in full of my late Master's subscription for 12 Welsh Books of his Translation.' This
WYNNE, JOHN (1667 - 1743), bishop of St Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford was admitted into Jesus College, where he graduated in 1685 (B.D. 1696, D.D. 1706), being elected a Fellow the same year. The name being a very common one, there has been, both in Foster and in the D.N.B., a good deal of confusion about his career; if D. R. Thomas's lists of St Asaph clergy are studied it will be seen that he was not the John Wynne who was at Nantglyn and Llansilin as alleged by
YSTUMLLYN, JOHN (d. 1786), gardener and land steward , two of whom died in infancy. Of the remainder, a daughter named Ann married James Martin, a musical instrument vendor in Liverpool; another daughter, Lowri, married, first, Robert Jones, a butler from Madryn on the Ll?n Peninsula, and secondly, a man named John Mcnamare; and a son, Richard (1770-1862), served as huntsman at Glynllifon under Sir Thomas Wynn (d. 1807), first baron Newborough. John

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