Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766 - 1850), poet wrote for her is one of the most poignant in the language. Robert was friendly with the eisteddfodic poets, but after the one occasion when he failed to win the prize he never competed. He and John Richard Jones of Ramoth were staunch friends, and he assisted the latter to publish his hymn-books. His connection with Dewi Wyn, his neighbour and former pupil, is commemorated in the name of a
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1810 - 1881), cleric, Celtic scholar and antiquary Ordinale de Vita Sancti Mereadoci) which was edited, with translation, by Whitley Stokes (London, 1872). In 1876 was completed the first volume of his Selections from the Hengwrt Manuscripts, and in 1878 and 1880 the first two parts of the second volume appeared. This second volume was completed in 1892 by the Rev. G. Hartwell Jones. Neither the texts nor the translations in these two volumes are always
WILLIAMS, ROBERT DEWI (1870 - 1955), minister (Presb.), headmaster of Clynnog School and writer . ed. 1948); he is considered to be the pioneer of this type of story in Welsh. He also wrote for periodicals, and some of his articles in Y Drysorfa were collected under the title Dyddiau mawr mebyd in 1973. In 1908 he married Helena Jones Davies, and they had a son. He died 25 January 1955 at Rhuddlan.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT JOHN (PRYSOR; 1891 - 1967), collier and actor national eisteddfod in 1928 he met two people who were to influence his life greatly, namely Daniel Haydn Davies, who became a producer of school programmes for the B.B.C., and also one who became a lifelong friend, namely David Moses Jones, a collier and actor like himself. In 1936 Thomas Rowland Hughes, the novelist and producer, invited both of them to take part in a radio play, and for the next 30
WILLIAMS, ROBERT ROLFE (1870 - 1948), a pioneer of Welsh-medium education Anne Jones, Tonpentre (died 27 July 1970). He retired to Llwyn-teg, Llan-non. He died 26 July 1948 and was buried in Llwyn-teg (Congl.) cemetery.
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1779 - 1854), cleric Ysgeifiog, and there is a memorial window to him at the west end of St Asaph cathedral. He married Jane Wynne Jones of Tre-iorwerth, near Bodedern, Anglesey, and they had three sons and five daughters. One of his sons was Rowland Williams (1817 - 1870). Rowland Williams began to take an interest in Welsh literary matters from the time he went to Bangor, and in 1805 was appointed secretary of the Bangor
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Capelulo; c.1782 - 1855), reformed drunkard, itinerant bookseller, 'character' cause. He became a well-known character, famed for his memorable sayings, his simple-minded attitudes (probably more feigned than real as he revealed a sharp wit when provoked), his humour and his ability to entertain audiences with accounts both of his reformed and his dissipated life. His chief patron was John Jones, the Llanrwst printer (1786 - 1865 who helped him to make a living by selling songs
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Clwydfro; 1821 - 1855), poet Born at Glan-clwyd, Bodfari, the son of Robert Williams (below). He started to write poetry when he was very young, sending his work to the Ceiniogwerth (see Jones, Lewis, 1808 - 1854), the Amserau, and the Beirniadur Cymreig, (1845). He went out to Australia as a gold miner, and was in Melbourne in 1853 or 1854 (Cymru, O.M.E., xxxi, 284). He died at Castlemaine, April 1855, 'aged 34.' ROBERT
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Twm Pedrog; 1774 - 1814), poet , cywyddau, and englynion included by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Cynfeirdd Lleyn, 1905. He died in May 1814, and was buried in the churchyard of Ceidio, Caernarfonshire
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Tom Nefyn; 1895 - 1958), minister (Presb.) and evangelist guidance of R.B. Jones before proceeding to the theological colleges of his denomination at Aberystwyth and Bala. He was ordained in 1925, and that same year he married Ceridwen Roberts Jones of Coed-poeth, and they had 3 children. He received a call to Ebenezer, Tumble, Carmarthenshire, the anthracite coal district where there was much industrial and political unrest in the 1920s. Tom Nefyn spent a
WILLIAMS, THOMAS OSWALD (ap Gwarnant; 1888 - 1965), Unitarian minister, author, poet and public figure magazine of the Unitarians in Wales, from January 1926 to December 1933 and in 1937, during the illness of his successor, Rev. T.L. Jones. He served on the consultative commiteee of Yr Ymofynnydd until the end of his life. He contributed frequent articles under his own name as well as ' T.O.W. ', ' O ', ' Ap Gwarnant ', ' E.W.O. ', ' Na N. ', ' Gwalch Ogwr ' etc. He wrote a series about denominational
WILLIAMS, TOM PUGH (1912 - 1985), university professor Tom Pugh Williams was born in 1912 in Trawsfynydd where his parents Edward and Jane (née Jones) Williams farmed Dolwen. When the lake in Trawsfynydd was created, the farm disappeared under the water. The family had moved from Trawsfynydd to Pantgwyn, Ysceifiog, Holywell and Tom Pugh Williams attended the County School for Boys in Denbigh. In 1929 he began his studies at the University College of

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