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teulu WILKINS '; (2) WILLIAM WILKINS Law, said to have been his fifth son (but this is in conflict with other statements), was deputy-protonotary, 1784-99, and protonotary from 1799 till his death in 1812; (3) ANNE WILKINS, who married John Maybery (died 1784), son of Thomas Maybery, a Worcestershire industrialist, who in 1720 had set up iron-works at Brecon - in 1758 'Maybery and Wilkins' erected a furnace at
WILKINS, CHARLES (Catwg; 1830 - 1913), writer Born at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, 1830, son of William Wilkins, who left Stonehouse to settle in Merthyr Tydfil as a bookseller. In 1851, William Wilkins became postmaster of Merthyr Tydfil, and his son Charles served him as a clerk. Twenty years later the son succeeded the father as postmaster and retired pensioned in 1898, after forty-six years service in all. Charles Wilkins was librarian
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728 - 1808), 'father of the iron trade' limited company in 1841. Wilkinson's portrait hangs in Wolverhampton town hall. His youngest brother, WILLIAM WILKINSON (died 1808) was educated under Joseph Priestley at Nantwich, went to Bersham with his father in 1753, and acted as representative abroad for the New Bersham Co. till 1787, helping to modernise the Le Creusot and other French munition works (c. 1776-81) - with a view, according to local
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WILLANS, JOHN BANCROFT (1881 - 1957), country landowner, antiquarian and philanthropist of Dolforgan, Kerry, Montgomeryshire, J.P., F.S.A.; born 27 May 1881 in Liverpool, only child of John William Willans (1843 - 1895), chief engineer of Liverpool Overhead Railway, and of Mary Louisa née Nicholson (1847 - 1911), grandson of Benjamin Willans (1816 - 1895) of Blaina, Monmouth. He was educated partly by private tutors, including Sir Leonard Woolley, and partly at Haileybury. He lived
WILLIAM ALAW (fl. c. 1535), poet
WILLIAM, DAVID (1720 - 1794), hymn-writer Born in the parish of Llanedi, Carmarthenshire. He is possibly the David William, 'exhorter in Llanfynydd' who became a schoolmaster, according to the report made by James Williams to the Methodist Association in 1743. He is known to have been an exhorter, but it is easy to mix him up with David Williams (1717-1792) of Llyswyrny. He lived at 'Llandeilo fach in the county of Glamorgan' when his
WILLIAM(S), LEWIS (1774 - 1862), peripatetic teachers Born in 1774 at Gwastadgoed, Pennal, the son of William and Susan Jones; his parents were very poor, and the father died when Lewis was only four years of age, leaving the mother to the care of the parish. At the age of 16, Lewis joined the county militia; later he was apprenticed to a shoe-maker in Cemaes, Montgomeryshire, where, at the age of 18, he found religion. Recalled to the militia, he
WILLIAM, LODWICK (fl. 1689?), writer of interludes was the author of Sherlyn Benchwiban, an interlude published in 1802 by Morgan Rees. Though the latter may have had several compositions by Lodwick William in his possession, the above is the only one which he appears to have published. Few biographical details are available concerning this writer, but his interlude contains references to personages and incidents which suggest that it was
WILLIAM(S), ROBERT (1744 - 1815), poet, and farmer Day of Judgement, which his master Rolant Huw thought not unworthy of comparison with the better-known cywyddau of Goronwy Owen and William Wynn (of Llangynhafal) on the same subject. He also wrote a to Dafydd Ionawr (David Richards), and exchanged englynion with Twm o'r Nant (Thomas Edwards). But the bulk of his work consists of elegies of purely local interest, carols, and 'club songs' - there is
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1717 - 1765), Methodist exhorter and later Independent minister Association; he and his friend, William Edwards (1719 - 1789), were given some kind of ordination by the Groes-wen society. He kept up his connection with Methodism, and was Howel Harris's right hand man in the early years of the split between him and Daniel Rowland. In 1752 he was expelled from Harris's party and he and the Groes-wen society seceded and joined the Independents. He died while he was on a
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1697 - 1778) Mynydd-bach, Independent minister, and author

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1681 - 1692 of 1867 for "William Glyn"