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WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1824 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Dolwyddelan in 1824, the son of Griffith and Elin Williams, who not long afterwards moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog. He went to work in the quarry, his sole education having been in the Sunday school. He became an acceptable lecturer on temperance, began to preach in 1848, and from 1849 to 1853 studied at Bala C.M. College. He then went to Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, where he kept a day school
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1854 - 1933), schoolmaster, geologist, and antiquary Born 16 December 1854, at Hên Dŷ Capel, Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog (not at Tanygrisiau as stated by J. Lloyd Williams), one of the five children of John Williams, Rhiwbryfdir (brother to Griffith Williams, 1824 - 1881), and his wife. After leaving school G. J. Williams worked as a quarryman in Chwarel Holland (part of the Oakeley quarry), Blaenau Ffestiniog. Afterwards he went to Bangor
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar and he died within a few days on 10 January 1963. In 1922 G. J. Williams married Elizabeth Elen Roberts of Blaenau Ffestiniog, a fellow student in the college at Aberystwyth (1910-14) who taught Welsh at the girls' county school, Treforest, Pontypridd (1914-18) and at Ebbw Vale county school, Monmouthshire (1918-22). They had no children and she died in St. David's Hospital, Cardiff on 31 January
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH VAUGHAN (1940 - 2010), journalist and gay activist Griff Vaughan Williams was born on 9 November 1940 in Bangor, Gwynedd, the only child of Griffith Williams (b. 1910), and his wife Katherine (née Turner, 1910-1968). He was educated at Friars grammar school in Bangor before studying journalism in Cardiff, and then worked for a number of magazines and provincial newspapers around the country until he joined the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.) ordained in 1909, and became minister of Tabernacl, New Quay, Cardiganshire (1908-20). During this period he was also a chaplain in the army, serving in Egypt and Palestine. In 1920 he received a call to Tŵr-gwyn church, Bangor, where he remained until 1966. In 1939 he married Phyllis Roberts of Bangor. He died 1 February 1968. His ashes were transferred from Colwyn Bay Crematorium to the family grave in
WILLIAMS, GWLADYS MARION GRIFFITH - gweler EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH
WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH (1718 - 1794), soldier and Member of Parliament Born in 1718, the son of Griffith Williams of Ariannws (Llangelynnin, Conway valley) and grandson of Edmund Williams, brother of Sir Hugh Williams of Marl; when his kinsman Sir Robert Williams of Marl died (1745), he succeeded as 8th baronet 'of Penrhyn' (J. E. Griffith Pedigrees, 186 and 43). He married, in 1761, Emma, widow of lord James Bulkeley and heiress of Caerau and Castellior (see under
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar limited edition of 200 copies, did not have the same aim. But he returned to his original purpose with Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr (1914), produced in collaboration with Thomas Roberts. He had long been interested in Dafydd ap Gwilym, having discussed his floruit in two articles in Y Drysorfa in 1909. This selection of Dafydd's poems was the first attempt to restore the text along scholarly
WILLIAMS, JOHN (bu farw 1613), principal of Jesus College, Oxford proved himself an able college administrator, and under him the number of students steadily increased, and there was a marked influx of Welshmen from South Wales. He instituted a ' Liber Collegii,' containing a register of college elections and acts and sometimes statements of accounts. But he was obdurate in his opposition to the introduction of the statutes drafted and advocated by Griffith Powell
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 (1856 - 1917), teacher of singing and choral conductor Born at 20, Castle Square, Caernarvon, 26 October 1856, the son of Humphrey and Ann Williams. His father was the precentor in the local Wesleyan chapel where he also conducted the choir. When he was 8 years of age his father arranged for him to be taught the piano by Robert Roberts, the cathedral organist at Bangor, and later the organ and the principles of harmony by Dr. Roland Rogers. In 1880

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