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WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author Kyffin Williams was born at Tanygraig, Llangefni, Anglesey, on 9 May 1918, the second son of Henry Inglis Wynne Williams (1870-1942), a bank manager, and his wife Essyllt Mary (1883-1964), daughter of Richard Hughes Williams, rector of Llansadwrn. Their first son Owen Richard Inglis Williams (Dick) was born in 1916 and died in 1982. It was a matter of great pride for Kyffin Williams that his
WILLIAMS, JOHN RICHARD (J.R. Tryfanwy; 1867 - 1924), poet
WILLIAMS, MORRIS (Nicander; 1809 - 1874), cleric and man of letters pulpit in Bangor cathedral. In 1840 he married Ann Jones of Denbigh; they had five daughters and three sons. One son, WILLIAM GLUNN WILLIAMS, became headmaster of Friars school, Bangor from 1879 to 1919; he died 23 February 1938, at the age of 87; in 1901 he published his father's work, Damhegion Esop ar Gân; and another, Richard, headmaster of Cowbridge grammar school. Whilst at Holywell, Nicander
WILLIAMS, MOSES (bu farw 1819), General (but Trinitarian) Baptist minister, and blacksmith wing, and maintaining (as John Richard Jones of Ramoth did) that 'faith' was nothing more than simple belief. In 1797 he was ordained minister of Llandyfân, and in 1798 started another church in Pontbren-araeth in the parish of Llangadog. In the 1799 schism, he and his two churches broke away from the Particular Baptists, although they continued to be Trinitarians; Williams welcomed the advent of the
WILLIAMS, PETER BAILEY (1763 - 1836), cleric and writer translated two of Richard Baxter's books into Welsh under the titles: Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint, 1825, and Galwad i'r Annychweledig, 1825. Although there is little originality in his work, he deserves praise for refusing to be led astray by William Owen Pughe's system of orthography and for his discernment in seeing that Iolo Morganwg's claims about the ' Gorsedd of the Bards ' were false. In 1798 he
WILLIAMS, PHILIP (bu farw 1717), genealogist his son LLEWELYN WILLIAMS (who was buried 20 November 1740). For the titles of some of the poems (including one by ' Richard Edwards y prydydd o Wynedd') see volume one of N.L.W. Schedule of Penrice and Margam Muniments, 1942. For further details of the family see D. Rhys Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 1925; see also G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 224.
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic the rank of captain, and these experiences inform the war scenes in his fifth novel, Loyalties (1985). The fact that he fought against fascism contributed to his later authority as an intellectual of the post-war New Left and distinguished his generation (which included E. P. Thompson, Richard Hoggart and Gwyn A. Williams) from the later 'new' New Left of the 1960s (Perry Anderson, Tom Nairn, Terry
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (bu farw 1724), Baptist minister
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (Dryw Bach; 1790 - 1839), poet and singer
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1747 - 1811), cleric and man of letters Born at Hawarden in 1747, the son of the rector, Richard Williams (M.A., Jesus College, Oxford), who in turn was the son of Peter Williams, also a clergyman, owner of Fron (Arddynwynt) near Mold - the family claimed to be descended from Cynwrig Efell (Yorke, Royal Tribes of Wales). He entered Brasenose College, Oxford, in December 1765, at the age of 18, but there is no record of his having
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (Gwydderig; 1842 - 1917), collier and poet Born 16 February 1842 in a cottage called Pen-y-graig, Brynaman, the son of Daniel Richard Williams, collier, and Mary, his wife, the daughter of a farmer. Gwydderig was brought up in a house named Bryn Hafod, Brynaman, Glamorganshire. He lost his father when he was only a boy and went early to work in a coal mine. He began to contribute poems to Y Gwladgarwr at a time when William Williams
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads

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