Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir GEORGE CLARK (1878 - 1958), BARONET and county court judge large practice specialising in matters relating to Workers' Compensation, gaining experience of great value to him on the bench in years to come. In 1934 he moved to London for a short period when he was made King's Counsel, but in 1935 he was appointed Judge of the County Court of mid-Glamorgan and he remained there for 13 years until he took the post of deputy National Insurance Commissioner. He
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian Glanmor Williams was born on 5 May 1920 at 3 Cross Francis St, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the only child of Daniel Williams (died 1957) and his wife Ceinwen (née Evans) who died in 1970. The paternal family's roots were in Breconshire, the maternal in Rhandir-mwyn, Carmarthenshire. The family were Welsh-speaking Baptists and members of Moriah chapel, Dowlais. His father was first a
WILLIAMS, GRACE MARY (1906 - 1977), composer Grace Williams was born in Barry, Glamorgan on 19 February 1906, the eldest of three children of William Matthews Williams (a schoolteacher from Wrexham) and his wife Rose Emily (née Richards), a teacher from Llanelli, who had married in 1900. Her brother Glyn was born in 1908, and her sister Marian in 1919. W. M. Williams was an accomplished musician and the conductor of the Romilly Boys' Choir
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar main field of his research from then until the end of his life. At the national eisteddfod held at Neath in 1918, he won the main essay competition on the subject ' The Bards of Glamorgan to the end of the 18th century '. In 1919 he published articles about the work of Iolo in Y Beirniad. As a result he was awarded a fellowship of the University of Wales so that he could continue his studies in this
WILLIAMS, GWILYM (1839 - 1906), judge county courts, mid-Wales circuit, to be soon afterwards (1885) promoted to the responsible position of judge of the county courts of Glamorgan in 1885, a post which he held until his death (25 March 1906). He was also chairman of the Glamorgan quarter sessions from 3 July 1894 until death. Like his father he was an ardent and patriotic Welshman. A great eisteddfodwr, he often presided over enthusiastic
WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter He was born at 11 Lower Row, Pen-y-wern, Dowlais, Glamorgan, on 30 September 1925. He was one of three children born to Thomas John Williams (1892-1971) and Gwladys Williams née Morgan (1896-1983), both of whom were schoolteachers. His roots were deep in the iron-making town and he took pride in being the archetypal 'bachgen bach o Ddowlais' (little boy from Dowlais). The house where he was
WILLIAMS, JAC LEWIS (1918 - 1977), educationalist, author , in 1973. Jac L. Williams was educated at Aber-arth primary school, Aberaeron grammar school and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he read Welsh, Latin and Greek. He gained a First-Class Honours degree in Welsh in 1939. He worked in an industrial laboratory in England before returning to Glamorgan to teach. He lectured in economics and commerce in Monmouthshire Technical College
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith namesake, the ' Sir John Williams, maister of the kinges jewels,' whose house, so Stow says (Survey of London, Everyman ed., 264), was burnt down in 1541. This ' Baron Williams of Thame ' (1500? - 1569) is fully dealt with in D.N.B.; he was keeper of Henry VIII's jewels, 1531-44. He was of Welsh descent - from William ap Grono of Glamorgan (Clark, Limbus Patrum, 127-8), but had no contact with Wales
WILLIAMS, JOHN (RUFUS) (Rufus; 1833 - 1877), Baptist minister and author arose among some of the Associations. As a denominational historian, he published two series of articles in Seren Cymru, the one on Baptist Academies (published in volume form in 1863) and the other on the Baptists of Ystradyfodwg (also published in volume form, under the title of Ystradiana, in 1886); he compiled the Glamorgan Association letter for 1873; and delivered a lecture to the Welsh Baptist
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 JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet appeared in Straeon y Gilfach Ddu (1931), in Glamorgan dialect portraying the colliers ' life there. His last volume was Y lloer a cherddi eraill (1936). Some of his poems which were set to music became very well-known, such as ' Clychau Cantre'r Gwaelod ' and ' Canu'r plant '. He composed numerous hymns and was one of the editors of the hymns for the Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd (1921), and Caniedydd
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician Maria Jane Williams was born at Aberpergwm in the Neath Valley, Glamorgan, on 4 October 1795, the fifth and youngest child of Rees Williams of Aberpergwm (1755-1812) and his wife Ann (née Jenkins, 1759-1834) of Ystradfellte. The Williams family of Aberpergwm claimed descent from Iestyn ab Gwrgant and the poet Dafydd Nicolas had a home with them in the second half of the eighteenth century. The

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