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WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist other hand are the persistent traditions about the quasi-miraculous wonders of ' Cae'r Fendith ' (the Field of Blessing); Joshua Thomas the historian had a good look at the field in 1745; Dr. William Richards gave a prominent place to the story in his Cambro-British Biography, and David Davies (1849 - 1926) a more prominent place still in his biography of Vavasor Powell. Henry Maurice, in 1675, said
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator ; WILLIAM WILLIAMS became a lieutenant in the Brazilian navy and died in 1832; and CATHERINE ANNE WILLIAMS married, in May 1840, the statesman, Richard Cobden, with whom she had become acquainted through being in school with his sisters. The father, who was a timber merchant at Machynlleth from 1799 onwards, was also interested in industrial speculation. His attempt to develop slate quarrying at Tan-y
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 to edit the paper until October 1850, when it was removed to London. Cadfan is next found in London holding the office of reader in the employ of the publisher John Cassell. He was friendly with John Jones (Talhaiarn) and William Jones (Gwrgant) and acted as secretary to the 'Talhaiarn Annuity Fund' during 1863-5. Papers relating to this fund as well as a holograph letter of Cadfan are contained in
WILLIAMS, HUW OWEN (Huw Menai; 1886 - 1961), poet Born 4 Rathborne Court, Caernarfon 13 July 1886, registered as the son of Elizabeth Williams and her husband William Williams, slate-quarryman, though it has been suggested that his natural father may have been one Hugh Owen. He left school at the age of twelve but continued to read widely and worked at various short-term jobs to help support himself and his mother. At the age of sixteen he went
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar of two poets which had been collected by two other scholars - Dafydd Nanmor (1923) by Thomas Roberts (of Borth-y-gest, not to be confused with the Thomas Roberts mentioned above), and Guto'r Glyn (1939) by J. Llywelyn Williams. He published many texts, both prose and verse, in the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies. His linguistic pursuits led him to take a passing glimpse at sixteenth century
WILLIAMS, JOHN (J.W. Llundain; 1872 - 1944), slate merchant Born in Tŷ Capel Rhostryfan, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire, 22 September 1872, the eldest of the seven children of John Williams, slate-quarryman, and Catherine his wife, daughter of Robert and Jane Jones, Llandwrog. One of his brothers was William Gilbert Williams. John was educated in Rhostryfan Board School and began working in Braich quarry in July 1885 where he remained for about five years when
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1747 - 1831), Methodist cleric Born 1747 at Penwern-hir, near Pontrhyd-fendigaid, Cardiganshire, son of William Rees Mathias and Ann, his wife. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig and Carmarthen grammar school; ordained deacon in 1770 and priest in 1771; appointed curate of Lledrod and Llanwnnws, where he came under the influence of the local Methodist clergymen - Williams of Llanfair Cludogau and Daniel Rowland - and joined the
WILLIAMS, JOHN (fl. 1739-1779), Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer In 1739 Howel Harris mentions 'dear Jack of Errwd '; there was, in fact, a family with that surname living at 'Erwood,' in the parish of Cerrig Cadarn, Brecknock. He and his brother, William, were exhorters in 1742-3 and the Methodist society met at their house. William (died 1746) married Ann Bowen of Tyddyn. Sarah, his sister, married Thomas James (died 1751), the Builth exhorter. In 1748 Howel
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1754 - 1828), Methodist cleric Born 23 May 1754, second son of the hymnist William Williams of Pantycelyn. He was educated at Coed-cochion, Carmarthen grammar school, and Ystrad Meurig, was ordained deacon in 1779 and priest in 1780. After being curate at Llanfynydd and Builth, he went, in 1781, at David Jones of Llan-gan's (1736 - 1810) request, to keep a school at Coychurch, and about this time joined the Methodists. In 1784
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith Son of William Coetmor and grandson of the John Coetmor who was an illegitimate son and twenty-third child of Meredydd ap Ieuan ap Rhobert of Cesail Gyfarch in Eifionydd - two of John Coetmor's half-brothers were Humphrey Wynn of Cesail Gyfarch and Cadwaladr Wynn of Wenallt in Nanhwynen (today, ' Nant Gwynant'); pedigrees are given by J. E. Griffith, 280-1 and 393 - but on p. 393 he follows the
WILLIAMS, JOHN (RUFUS) (Rufus; 1833 - 1877), Baptist minister and author Born at Merthyr Tydfil, 5 May 1833, son of William and Hannah Williams, members at Abercannaid, where he himself was baptized in 1848. He was employed as a youth at the Pentre-bach ironworks, but started to preach 24 April 1850, and in January 1855, after a two years' course of training at a school kept at Merthyr Tydfil by Thomas Davies (1812 - 1895), he was admitted to Pontypool College. In

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