Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID CHRISTMAS (1871 - 1926), musician
EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883 - 1944), singer she taught singing till her death there on 5 October, 1944. She was buried at Henllan. She had married, in 1905, R.T. Williams, and she was survived by a daughter and a son.
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN MORRIS (1832 - 1903), musician
WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Born 3 February 1870 at Tal-y-bont, in the Vale of Conwy, where his father John Williams was Calvinistic Methodist minister. The family moved to Old Colwyn in 1882. Llewelyn Williams was educated at the Tal-y-bont primary school and at Old Colwyn (where he was a contemporary of Thomas Gwynn Jones) and at a private residential school at Llandudno. In 1885 he was apprenticed in a chemist's shop in
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Rees Williams was born on 22 November 1903, the only child of William Rees Williams, a veterinary surgeon, and Jennet David, of Garthcelyn, Bridgend. Through his father, he was related to Elizabeth Williams, the Maid of Sker. Educated at Mill Hill School and the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, he qualified as a solicitor in October 1929, being Honoursman of the Law Society. A
WILLIAMS, ALBERT CLIFFORD (1905 - 1987), Labour politician He was born at Blaina on 28 June 1905, one of the several children of Daniel Williams (born c.1869), a local miner, and his wife Sara Jane (born c.1872). He received his education at local elementary schools at Blaina, Monmouthshire and began his career as a miner at the age of just 14 and then became a colliery repairer. He was the chairman of the western lodge of the miner's union, 1936-46. He
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL (1656/7 - c. 1679), author son of Thomas Williams of Swansea. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 29 November 1672, and graduated B.A. 27 May 1676, but left without completing his degree by determination. He was the author of (1) A Pindaric Elegy on the famous Physician Dr. Willis, Oxon, 1675; (2) Imago Saeculi or the Image of the Age represented in four Characters, viz. the ambitious Statesman, insatiable Miser
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
WILLIAMS family Aberpergwm, settled at Aberpergwm, c. 1500. The family produced no particularly noteworthy member until the end of the 18th century; but long before that (certainly not later than 1670) it was deriving an income from the coal and ironstone on the estate by leasing the rights to speculators. George Williams, a notable athlete (died 1796), is believed to have been the last of the legitimate line, and it was REES
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (1658 - 1726), cleric and translator son of the Rev. William Williams and Elizabeth his wife; born at Eglwysbach, Denbighshire, 1658. He matriculated at Oxford from Jesus College, 3 April 1674, took his B.A. in 1677 and his M.A. in 1680. It is thought that he succeeded his father as rector of S. George, near Abergele, in 1684; possibly he was the Thomas Williams who was rector of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog from 1687 to 1702. He was
WILLIAMS, JOHN HUW (1871 - 1944), newspaper editor
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Trebor Mai; 1830 - 1877), poet

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