Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym ab Ioan; 1800 - 1868), Welsh-American poet Born at Bala, Merionethshire, and educated in an elementary school there. Emigrating to the U.S.A. in 1825, he became a merchant in New York and, in time, secretary of the S. David's Charitable Society. He took the prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1837, for elegiac englynion on Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc); he also won prizes for poems submitted to eisteddfodau in the U.S.A. Many of his
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (fl. 1853), translator and author in 1853. See now the note by E. Wyn James in Canu Gwerin, 27 (2004), p.46 (n.27), which shows that Thomas Levi was the author of the two volumes published under the pseudonym 'Y Lefiad'. The Methodist minister William Williams (1817-1900) contributed an introduction to Thomas Levi's translation, Crynodeb o Gaban 'Newyrth Tom (1853).
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Carw Coch; 1808 - 1872), eisteddfodwr and man of letters eisteddfod was held at the Stag, and from that time on the 'Free Enquirers' became the 'Cymreigyddion of the Carw Coch' (Red Stag). People like Alaw Goch, Dr. Thomas Price, and, indeed, all the local poets and writers took part in the Carw Coch eisteddfod, which continued as an institution for many years. The fruit of one of the series (1853) was the volume Gardd Aberdâr, 1854, which contains, among other
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer Maud Jones (granddaughter of the eccentric Thomas Job, Cynwyl), and they had three sons and two daughters; she died in 1911; (2) in 1916, Annie Price (head-mistress of Mountain Ash school and daughter of T. Price, minister of Brechfa). He died 18 June 1959, and his remains were buried in front of the new chapel of Bethany. After the Revival Nantlais became associated with the leading personalities
WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM RICHARD (1879 - 1961), railway traffic inspector Born 18 March 1879 son of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Agnes his wife, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire. He married, 8 April 1902, Mabel Escott Melluish but had no children. Known in railway circles as ' the man who achieved a schoolboy's ambition to run a railway ', Sir William was educated in Cardiff and began his career with the Rhymney Railway Company in 1893 as a junior clerk. He was put in
WILSON, HERBERT REES (1929 - 2008), scientist Herbert Wilson was born on 20 March 1929 on his grandfather's farm at Nefyn in Caernarfonshire. He was the son of Thomas Wilson, a ship's captain, and his wife Jennie. Herbert was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School, and went on to study physics at Bangor University, gaining a first class honours degree in 1949. He then continued his studies to gain a doctorate in 1952, under the supervision of
WINTER, CHARLES (1700 - 1773), Arminian Baptist minister . Winter remained there till his death, 23 April 1773; he was buried at Bedwellty. Joshua Thomas speaks of him with great respect. He practised throughout as a surgeon-apothecary, and 'had many scientific books in his library.' After his death he was succeeded as pastor by a Carmarthenshire man, Morgan Thomas, who died 1774. The next minister at Craig-y-fargod was JACOB ISAAC Grandson of the Jacob Isaac
WOGAN family -heirs of Robert de Valle (Dale), lord of Walwyn's Castle. Sir John Wogan, lord of Picton (as he was designated), founded the chantry of S. Nicholas in the cathedral of S. Davids in 1302, and it is said that he was buried in that chapel. He also secured a grant of the manor of Castle Morris, in Dewsland, for the bishop of S. Davids in 1302. He died 1321. Sir THOMAS WOGAN (born c. 1311), son and heir of
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies ) in the summer number of Lleufer, 1952, pp.57-65. (2) ALABAINA WOOD Her name in some districts became synonymous with 'gipsy.' J. Glyn Davies published some interesting details about her in the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society, 1929, 143-4. (3) THOMAS WOOD Born in a barn at Llan-y-bydder, and died at Ruthin at the age of 95. He had nine children, among whom may be mentioned (a) ROBERT WOOD, a
WOOD, RONALD KARSLAKE STARR (1919 - 2017), botanist Ronald Wood was born on 8 April 1919 at 10 Union Street, Ferndale in the Rhondda Valley, the son of Percival Thomas Evans Wood (1891-1975), colliery fitter, and his wife Flossie (née Starr, 1893-1989). He attended Ferndale Grammar School, and in 1937 he gained a scholarship to Imperial College London, where he graduated with a first class degree in botany in 1941. A year spent assisting research
WOOD, THOMAS (1777 - 1860), Member of Parliament - see WILLIAMS
WOODING, DAVID LEWIS (1828 - 1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper Born 13 December 1828 at Penybont Cottage, Llanfihangel Abergwesyn, Brecknockshire, eldest son of Benjamin Wooding (died 1861) of Beulah, near Builth Wells, Brecknock, a shopkeeper and farmer, and his wife Susannah (née Davies). He was educated at Beulah Chapel school, 1834-36, and then boarded at a small school at Cefnllanddewi run by Thomas Price, ' Twm Cork ', 1837-38, after which he attended

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