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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Peris; 1769 - 1847), poet married man, a slate quarryman, born in the parish of Llanberis but now resident at Waunfawr.' He wrote an awdl on ' Providence,' which was the subject prescribed by Humphrey Thomas, brother of Dafydd Ddu Eryri, as a set piece for the poets of Caernarvonshire at their meeting at Bontnewydd, Llanwnda, in 1803. In 1804 he sent an awdl on ' Ynys Prydain ' to the Gwyneddigion eisteddfod, but it was Dewi Wyn
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1732 - 1799), Baptist minister, and justice of the peace even more strongly the Welsh edition of ' John Canne's Bible,' which was the joint production of Peter Williams and the Baptist David Jones (1741? - 1792), and which led to the excommunication of Peter Williams by the Methodists. There are some who believe (but without much foundation) that it was he who wrote Dialogous [ sic ] which was printed in 1791. In 1793 he published in Y Cylchgrawn Cynmraeg
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Caledfryn; 1801 - 1869), Congregational minister, poet, and critic Caledfryn (a further volume of verse), 1856. He edited Gardd Eifion, the works of Robert ap Gwilym Ddu in 1841, and Eos Gwynedd, the works of John Thomas, Pentrefoelas (1742-1818), in 1845, and a collection of hymns in 1860. He contributed essays on Robert ap Gwilym Ddu and Dewi Wyn o Eifion to Y Drysorfa in 1852 and 1853. He edited many periodicals, including Y Sylwedydd, (1831), Tywysog Cymru (1832-3
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 (1781 - 1840), Independent minister admitted to full membership when he was only 15 years of age - an unusual thing in those days. He worked with his father as a carpenter for some time, but before he was 19 years of age began to preach, at the same time getting some elementary education from his minister, the Rev. William Jones, who taught him to write. He then went to school at Aberhafesp, near Newtown, for eight or nine months. In 1803
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (c. 1625 - 1684), antiquary Llanddyfnan, and daughter of William Jones of Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth. That he was a competent and reliable antiquary is proved by such of his work as has survived, i.e. 'Historia Bellomarisci,' 1669, published as a supplement to the revised edition of Fenton's Tours in Wales (Archæologia Cambrensis, Supplement, 1917); ' History of the Bulkeley Family ' (1673-4), first published in Transactions of the Anglesey
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Myfyr Wyn; 1849 - 1900), blacksmith, poet and local historian A regular contributor of articles to the Welsh press, especially to Tarian y Gweithiwr in the 'nineties.' He was born on Twyn Star, Tredegar, and was the son of John and Hannah Williams. His father, a coalminer, was a native of the Cardigan district, who died following an accident in the Bryn Bach mine, Tredegar, when Myfyr Wyn was a boy, one of four children. His mother was born at Nant-y-bwch
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ALBERT (1909 - 1946), organist, music critic and composer Born in Liverpool, 16 January 1909, son of Captain Richard Williams and Anne Williams, both from Marian-glas, Anglesey. His father drowned when Albert was 4 years old and his mother died when he was 15. His mother's sister, Mrs. Stanley Jones, Liverpool, then took care of him, his brother and sister. He began to have piano and organ lessons when he was very young, and he was appointed organist at
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM GILBERT (1874 - 1966), schoolmaster and local historian Born in Tŷr Capel, Rhostryfan, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire, 20 January 1874, son of John Williams, slate quarryman, and Catherine (née Jones) his wife. One of his brothers was ' J.W. of London '). He left the local school when he was nine years old to work in Cilgwyn quarry but returned as a pupil-teacher and won a scholarship to enter Bangor Normal College, 1892-94. He was appointed the first
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM JONES (1891 - 1945), revivalist, Apostolic pastor
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM JONES (1863 - 1949), civil servant, secretary of Kodak Limited, treasurer of Coleg Harlech and Urdd Gobaith Cymru wife Mary Williams (1873 - 1942), of London and formerly Ruthin, whom he married in 1903, was mountaineering. He climbed in north Wales and the Alps with such pioneers as Owen Glynne Jones, Roderick Williams, J.M. Archer Thomson, and G.D. and A.P. Abraham; he had joined the Alpine Club in 1903 and was also a member of the Climbers' Club. He was a contributor to S.H. Hamer, Dolomites (1910, 2nd ed
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer Trefeca College. He took an interest in poetry at a young age and published a collection of his poems, Murmuron y Nant (1898), while he was a student. He won a bardic chair under the adjudication of Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams) at an eisteddfod in Ammanford in 1899, and he recieved a call soon afterwards to be pastor of the recently established church of Bethany in that town. He was ordained in

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