Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian Born 1 March 1878 and brought up in Y Wenallt, parish of Troed-yr-aur (Trefdreyr), Cardiganshire. His father Ivor Pryse Williams (1850 - 1920) was the son of the writer priest Benjamin Williams ('Gwynionydd '; 1821 - 1891) and his mother Elizabeth the daughter of a Baptist family of Bethel church, Dre-fach Felindre, whose two brothers, David Phillip Jones (1850 - 1884), Felin-gwm and Llanfynydd
WILLIAMS, EDMUND (1717 - 1742), early hymnist of the Methodist revival hymns printed by S. Mason of Pontypool in 1741, and another collection of his hymns was published posthumously in 1742 by Felix Farley, of Bristol. According to Edmund Jones he also published 'something against dancing.' He died in April, and was buried 17 April 1742.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor church, and it was then thought that he might try the law, and so he went to Caerwys grammar school, where Thomas Jones, later of Denbigh (1756 - 1820) was one of his contemporaries. But he changed his mind once more and returned home. When he was in this state of indecision he heard Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho preach, and joined the Methodists - years afterwards (1773) Edmund Jones noted in his diary
WILLIAMS, ELISEUS (Eifion Wyn; 1867 - 1926), poet the ministry. In 1907 he married Ann Jones of Efail Bach, Aber-erch. He wrote a great deal of poetry both in the classical and 'free' forms - awdlau, cywyddau, englynion, lyrics, hymns, and satires - and won a number of chairs in local and provincial eisteddfodau, as well as prizes at the national eisteddfod, at which he also acted as an adjudicator. His best known work in the classical form is an
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 (1719 - 1748), Congregational minister and revivalist the licence of 1744. He went to Carmarthen Academy in 1745 and received a grant of two pounds from the Congregational Board on 5 October 1747. He died 20 August 1748 after a long illness following upon his Caernarvonshire journey. Edmund Jones, Pontypool, said that he was unequalled as a preacher, a devoted Scripture student, and that, had he lived he would have been famous throughout Wales as a
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, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler date of birth is uncertain and she may have been one of the three Frances Williamses baptized in the parishes of Halkyn, Flint or Northop, Flintshire in 1760 and 1762. As a young, unmarried woman, she was employed by Griffith at Wibnant cottage near Holywell - the home rented to him by his master Thomas Pennant, esquire of Downing, following his marriage to Margaret Jones in January 1781. By August
WILLIAMS, GEORGE (1879 - 1951), company director and Lord Mayor of Cardiff chaired the Chamber of Trade, the estates committee and the airport committee, and he played an important part in the city's acquisition of Cardiff Castle and Pontcanna Fields. A leading champion of Cardiff's claim to be recognised as the capital of Wales, he purchased Parc Cefn Onn and later donated it to the city. He was made a C.B.E. in 1938. In 1904 he married Margaret Jones (died 1942) and they had
WILLIAMS, GRACE MARY (1906 - 1977), composer , which achieved considerable fame. Grace was educated at Barry Girls' Grammar School and was much influenced by her music teacher Rhyda Jones, who had recently graduated from UCW Aberystwyth where she had been taught by Walford Davies. Her pupil proceeded to the University College in Cardiff where she studied music under David Evans and took her B.Mus. in 1926. She recalled that the course in Cardiff
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar field. He worked under the supervision of Sir John Morris-Jones at Bangor during the 1919-20 academic year and spent periods studying manuscripts at the British Museum in London, the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Free Library, Cardiff, as well as parish records of the Vale of Glamorgan. During this period he also had to defend his scholarship in the public press in the face of fierce attacks by
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator . (A John Williams, who may be the brother referred to above, was admitted in 1823.) Williams was distantly related to William Jones, the town clerk of Carmarthen, and it was this which induced him to settle there, although they did not go into partnership as had been expected. He practised at Carmarthen from 1822 to 1842, and then at Carmarthen and other places in the neighbourhood until his death

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