Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JOHN LLOYD (1854 - 1945), botanist and musician researches on the Brown Seaweeds - the life cycle of Fucus - the results of which were published in The Annals of Botany (1896) and The Proceedings of the Royal Society (1897). His best known work on Dictyota was completed in Bangor and published 1904-05, the double tides of the Menai Straits providing a factor of outstanding significance in his studies of rhythmic variations in the environment. It was not
WILLIAMS, ROBERT HERBERT (Corfanydd; 1805 - 1876), musician years he lived at Drogheda, Ireland. He returned to Liverpool for a while and then, owing to ill-health, went to live in a house called Corfandy, Menai Bridge, where he died 20 November 1876; he was buried in Llantysilio churchyard.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS CHARLES (1868 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister , Aberystwyth, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in 1897. In 1923 he received the degree of D.D. from Edinburgh University. He came straight from Oxford to become pastor of the Calvinistic Methodist church at Menai Bridge - his sole pastorate. He was moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association (1918-19) and of the General Assembly (1921-22). His preaching in Welsh and English was

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