Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Tasker Watkins was born on 18 November 1918 at 9 Station Terrace, Nelson, Glamorgan, the second son and the fourth of seven children of Bertram Watkins, an engine fitter and later a government employee, and his wife Jane (née Phillips). His father and grandfather both fought in Kitchener's Army and his father's two brothers were killed fighting with the Welsh Guards in the First World War. He won
WAYNE family, industrialists
WILKINS family WILKINS (1677 - 1736?), who gave the two manuscripts mentioned to Jesus College, Oxford, was a lawyer; he became deputy-protonotary for the Brecknock circuit (not protonotary, as is generally said), and was the originator of a family which (with its connections by marriage) played a considerable part in the legal, financial, and industrial history of Brecknock and north Glamorgan. It would seem that he
WILLIAM, DAVID (1720 - 1794), hymn-writer Born in the parish of Llanedi, Carmarthenshire. He is possibly the David William, 'exhorter in Llanfynydd' who became a schoolmaster, according to the report made by James Williams to the Methodist Association in 1743. He is known to have been an exhorter, but it is easy to mix him up with David Williams (1717-1792) of Llyswyrny. He lived at 'Llandeilo fach in the county of Glamorgan' when his
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1717 - 1765), Methodist exhorter and later Independent minister Born 1717, son of the miller of Corrwg mill, Eglwysilan, Glamorganshire. He came to religion under the ministry of Howel Harris, c. 1738. He was a schoolmaster in the circulating schools, began to exhort among the Methodists, and in 1743 was appointed superintendent of the societies in Glamorgan. He was one of those who, in 1745, conveyed the message concerning the ordination of exhorters to the
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1832 - 1890), barrister and educationist resigned this office in May 1878 when he was elected Member of Parliament for Carmarthen boroughs; he sat for this constituency until his appointment as judge of county courts for circuit number 30 (part of the counties of Glamorgan and Brecon), 13 December 1881. He retired from the bench in June 1885 because of ill-health. He was also justice of the peace for the counties of Brecon, Glamorgan, and
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born at Is-coed, Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, son of William Dafydd. Richard William Dafydd, the exhorter, was his brother. As a young man he came to Glamorgan to work for Christopher Bassett, junior of Aberthaw, and began to exhort in the Methodist societies c. 1742. It is not certain whether he was the David Williams who was appointed a ' private exhorter ' at the Watford Association, 1743
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer , Cardiff, and of Watford chapel. It was this minister who was instrumental in bringing Howel Harris to Glamorgan in 1738, and among the evangelist's converts was David Williams's father. In response to his father's dying request (1752) Williams decided to enter the Dissenting ministry. From 1753 to 1757 he was a student at the Carmarthen Academy. In this period the Academy was notorious for its
WILLIAMS, DAVID CHRISTMAS (1871 - 1926), musician bound,' and 'Charge of the Light Brigade' were set as pieces for competition in various national eisteddfodau. He also wrote several anthems and hymn-tunes. In 1895 he settled as a music teacher at Merthyr Tydfil, where (in 1898) he became organist of Hope chapel. In 1905 he formed a north Glamorgan orchestral society which did excellent work by making orchestral works by some of the masters known. He
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Cardiff Assessment Committee, a post he held from 1935 to 1945, and Honorary Legal Adviser to the South Wales and Monmouthshire Council of Social Services. Like his father, Williams's chief interest, outside work, was the Territorial Army in which he served as an officer with the 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion of the Welch Regiment. On active service throughout the Second World War, he rose to the rank of
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary his father cutting the inscriptions on gravestones. His mother was an able woman and it may be gathered that it was she who taught him in his early youth. He relates that it was a bard named Edward Williams of Llancarfan who taught him the elements of the bardic craft, but he also came, when quite young, into touch with the bards of upper Glamorgan, such as Lewis Hopkin, Siôn Bradford, and Rhys
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (1890 - 1963), politician in 1945 and was created K.C.M.G. in 1952. He remained loyal to the Labour Party throughout his life. He married in 1916 Evelyn, daughter of David James, Lanelay, Pontypridd. They had two daughters. He died 16 May 1963 at his home Canberra, 107 Grove Road, Bridgend, Glamorgan, and his remains were cremated at Thornhill Crematorium.

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