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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 (Hywel Cernyw; 1843 - 1937), Baptist minister, writer, and poet Wales and Monmouth, 1892-3. In 1932 the University of Wales honoured him with the degree of D.D. He wrote a large number of hymns. He was for a time editor of Seren Gomer, the Greal, and Yr Athraw. His publications include Bannau Ffydd, 1900; Yr Arweinydd Dwyfol, Cofiant Dr. Hugh Jones, 1884; Nodiadau ar Epistolau Ioan a Judas, 1874; Esboniad ar yr Efengyl yn ol Ioan, 1899-1900 (two volumes produced
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
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author Born in Llanengan, Llŷn peninsula, in 1721 or 1722 (he was christened 18 January 1721/2), the son of William Williams (or ' Jones ') and Catherine his wife - William Morris suggests (Morris Letters, i, 308) that he was connected with the Bodvel family, but Foster enters 'pleb.' against his father's name. According to a letter which he wrote to Richard Morris in 1764, he was educated at Friars
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Cadfan; 1807? - 1870), printer and journalist Born at Bryn-crug, near Towyn, Merionethshire. He served his apprenticeship with Richard Jones, the Dolgelley printer. He became known as a writer of ability and a staunch advocate and defender of the Church, and in January 1848, he started to edit and print a Church paper called Y Cymro, published at first in Bangor. In July 1849, he handed over the proprietorship to a Mr. Shone, but continued
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar , and took honours in Welsh in 1906. Session 1906-07 he spent as Assistant to John Morris Jones in the Welsh Department and working for his M.A. degree. He was appointed Assistant Lecturer in 1907. In 1920 he was given a personal chair, with the title of Professor of Welsh Literature. On the death of John Morris-Jones in 1929 the personal chair was discontinued, and Ifor Williams became Professor of
WILLIAMS, JAC LEWIS (1918 - 1977), educationalist, author to the Faculty of Education in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and some four years later, in 1960, he succeeded Professor Idwal Jones as Professor and Dean of the Faculty. In 1976 he became Vice-Principal of the college. He became a national figure after being appointed to the chair of education in Aberystwyth. Dr W. Gareth Evans said of him: 'Never before had a Professor of Education

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