Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library Triumphans, distinguishing between Gwaethfoed of Powys and Gwaethfoed of Ceredigion, and a short tract on the Five Royal Tribes of Wales. Robert Vaughan died on Ascension Day 16 May 1667. Anthony Wood, on the authority of Thomas Ellis, rector of Dolgelley, states that he was buried in the church of that parish in 1666. The burial is not recorded in the parish register, but in a draft will, made 1 May 1665
WATKINS, ALBERT JOHN (1922 - 2011), cricketer folklore as being the last man in a Test match to field a shot from Bradman, struck on the first ball. He toured South Africa with the MCC team in the winter of 1948-9, and became the first Welshman to score a Test hundred when he scored 111 in the fourth Test at Ellis Park in February 1949. He surpassed this score in November 1951 when he scored 137 not out in the match against India at Delhi: his
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister . In Bangor he promoted the new Tabernacl building. He was a member of the Caernarvonshire L.E.A., and took a responsible interest in the University College of North Wales. A Liberal in politics, he took a prominent part in the 1885 (Merioneth) election, and subsequently supported T. E. Ellis. At Bangor he opposed the war in South Africa. In the Calvinistic Methodist Church, he was moderator of the
WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM (Bardd Du Eryri; 1755 - 1828), poet and chair manufacturer Born at Cwmglas Mawr, Llanberis. His father, Thomas Williams, sent him for a time to the school kept by John Morgan (1743 - 1801), curate of Llanberis; Dafydd Ddu Eryri was there at the same time. Previous to that there had been two other curates at Llanberis in Abraham Williams's boyhood; they were, David Ellis who was there from 1764 to 1767, and Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) who was there for part
WILLIAMS, ALICE HELENA ALEXANDRA (ALYS MEIRION; 1863 - 1957), writer, artist, and voluntary welfare worker Deudraeth and its estate were sold to her nephew, Clough Williams-Ellis, in 1931 her family retained Borth-wen, a house overlooking the estuary, and this became her local base during her regular visits. She approved the conversion of the castle into an hotel, persuading well-heeled friends from London to stay there. During this period she continued to be a pioneer, being the first woman elected to the
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, JOHN ELLIS (1901 - 1975), author and dramatist by his social comedies and especially his satirical verse. He was a popular novelist, creating two Welsh detectives, Hopyn and Parri in two series of detective novels, five titles of the former between 1958 and 1961 and five of the latter between 1965 and 1967. All J. Ellis Williams' work was produced as a leisure time activity but it is characterised by a professional attitude to all aspects of
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet newydd yr Ysgol Sul (1930); he also assisted in preparing the Caniedydd (1960). It was he who edited the memorial volume to Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans), Cerddi'r Bugail (1918), and he was editor of ' Congl y Beirdd ' in Y Tyst, 1924-37, and Y Dysgedydd, 1933-36. He received an honorary M.A. degree from the University of Wales in 1930. He married (1), 1899, Claudia Bevan of Mountain Ash. She died
WILLIAMS, ROBERT JOHN (PRYSOR; 1891 - 1967), collier and actor Born 13 April 1891 at Trawsfynydd, Meironnydd. His father, Ellis, was a carpenter and died young; his mother, Eliza, daughter of ' Eos Prysor ', raised him and his sister with the scant assistance of the Board of Guardians. He was educated at Trawsfynydd British School but he left when he was ten years old to earn his living as a farm-worker. When his mother re-married the family moved to the
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Myfyr Wyn; 1849 - 1900), blacksmith, poet and local historian in 1819, her parents having moved there from the Neath Valley. She was a sister to William Hopkin, coalminer, who wrote several of the articles in Mathetes's theological dictionary. The family were Baptists, and Myfyr Wyn was brought up in Carmel church, Sirhowy. Robert Ellis (Cynddelw), was a minister there during his boyhood, and had a life-long influence over him. Myfyr Wyn learnt his trade as a
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EWART (1894 - 1966), physicist and inventor Born 3 March 1894 at Bodgarad, Rhostryfan, Caernarfonshire, eldest son of Ellis William Williams (manager of Cilgwyn slate quarry) and his wife Jane, Llys Twrog, Y Fron. After attending local schools he entered Owens College, Manchester University, where he had Rutherford, Bohr and Darwin as tutors. He graduated with honours in physics in 1915 and gained his M.Sc. (Manchester) degree in 1926

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