Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Morgan. He also had the opportunity to read Welsh manuscripts. Thomas Richards, Coychurch, and John Walters, Llandough, must be listed among his teachers - and this accounts for the great interest which he took in the vocabulary of the Welsh language. Thus it was that he began to grow into a Welsh scholar. He learnt his father's craft, that of a stonemason. He journeyed in North Wales c. 1771-2 and, in
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher a share, 13 September 1808, in the bank of Messrs. Jones, Davies, and Williams (formerly Jones, Morgan, and Davies) called 'Banc y Llong' ('the Ship Bank') in Bridge Street, Aberystwyth. This partnership also was dissolved in 1815-6, and it is believed that 'Banc y Llong' then ceased to exist, but Messrs. Williams, Davies, and Co. were keeping a bank in the same premises and were represented by
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1816? - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and artist , including Eben Fardd, David Jones, (Treborth), and Edward Morgan (Dyffryn), but his best work was done in landscape, especially in his pictures of mountain and lake scenery. Between October 1848 and October 1849 he wrote articles on painters and painting to the Traethodydd. He died 2 October 1878, aged 62, and was buried at Caeathro, near Caernarvon. [See article on Prichard, John William.]
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian of his Welsh essays on religious leaders in Wales, Grym Tafodau Tân in 1985, together with a short bilingual study of Henry Tudor. He himself had persuaded Oxford University Press to launch a series of standard general histories of Wales, the first of which appeared in 1981, and in 1987 he produced for this series a second magnum opus entitled Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet Born 2 February 1769 at Hafod Olau, Waun-fawr, Caernarfonshire. His father was William, second son of Edward Williams of Llwyn-celyn, Llanberis, and his mother was Catrin, daughter of Morgan Gruffydd ('Morgan y Gogrwr') of Llŷn. He started life as a farm worker but later found employment at the Penrhyn quarry where, in due course, he became a foreman. He broke his ankle in an accident in the
WILLIAMS, GWILYM (1839 - 1906), judge Born at Ynyscynon, Aberdare, elder son of David Williams (Alaw Goch) and his wife, Ann, the sister of William Morgan (1819 - 1878), poet. He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school, the Normal College, Swansea, and in France. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple, 1863, and in the same year, on the death of his father, a wealthy landowner, as the proprietor of the Miskin estate with valuable
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, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist other hand are the persistent traditions about the quasi-miraculous wonders of ' Cae'r Fendith ' (the Field of Blessing); Joshua Thomas the historian had a good look at the field in 1745; Dr. William Richards gave a prominent place to the story in his Cambro-British Biography, and David Davies (1849 - 1926) a more prominent place still in his biography of Vavasor Powell. Henry Maurice, in 1675, said
WILLIAMS, HENRY PARRY - see PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator Williams died at Cobden Villa, Ferryside, 19 October 1874, and was buried in the churchyard of S. Ishmael, Ferryside. His widow, who remarried, died 25 February 1909. Hugh Williams is important because of his connections with the Chartist and 'Rebecca' movements. At an early date he had become the friend of Henry Hetherington and James Watson, two of the twelve authors of the People's Charter. In 1836 he
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar Welsh language (Cymmrodor, xxvi). Sir Ifor's studies in this field were new and original and made a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the background of Dafydd ap Gwilym's life and work. It was the same desire to produce texts for the use of students that prompted the publication of Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac Eraill in 1925, jointly with Thomas Roberts and Henry Lewis. Sir Ifor also edited the works
WILLIAMS, ISAAC (1802 - 1865), cleric, poet, and theologian year went into residence as a tutor in philosophy. In 1833 he was made dean of the college. He was rhetoric lecturer from 1834 to 1840 and vice-president of his college in 1841-2. Soon after his return to Trinity College he became curate to John Henry Newman at S. Mary's, Oxford. They became very firm friends, and when the Oxford Movement threatened the unity of the Church, Isaac Williams quickly

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