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WILLIAMS, DANIEL HOWELL (1894 - 1963), aerodynamicist fundamental experiments which amongst other things provided verification of the law of Kutta and Joukowksy connecting the lift of an aerofoil and the circulation around it. This important work was later published in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (1925). Following the loss of the airship R.101 in 1930 Dan Williams returned to work on airships. At the request of the Court of Inquiry he and A.R. Collar carried out a
WILLIAMS, DANIEL POWELL (Pastor Dan; 1882 - 1947), founder and first president of the Apostolic Church , and the financial centre in Glasgow; Daniel Powell Williams was president of the church and chairman of the Council of Apostles and Prophets and the Executive Committee, with his home in Pen-y-groes. A constitution for the united church was agreed upon, and signed by the president before being presented to the High Court in London. From 1917 onwards an annual convention has been held in Pen-y-groes
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler corresponded to the items described by Margaret as missing from her home since the night of the theft, and contained several additional items, including dimity cloth and a petticoat of the same material, numerous caps, soap, a brush and a plate. A case was fashioned to be presented before the assize court on 2 September 1783, and a 'True Bill' secured. Frances was accused of breaking in to Wibnant and
WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN (Baron Williams of Mostyn), (1941 - 2003), lawyer and politician working as a schoolteacher in north Wales, he was admitted to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1965 but did the first part of his pupillage in the Temple before completing it in Swansea, where he remained for thirteen years. He moved to London upon taking silk in 1978, and became a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 1979 he acted for George Deakin, a co-defendant in the Jeremy Thorpe case. Deakin's acquittal
WILLIAMS, Sir GEORGE CLARK (1878 - 1958), BARONET and county court judge large practice specialising in matters relating to Workers' Compensation, gaining experience of great value to him on the bench in years to come. In 1934 he moved to London for a short period when he was made King's Counsel, but in 1935 he was appointed Judge of the County Court of mid-Glamorgan and he remained there for 13 years until he took the post of deputy National Insurance Commissioner. He
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author 1635 he was summoned before the court of high commission for neglecting his wife, and he had to enter into a bond of £500 that he would treat her properly in future. In 1636 he was made one of the king's chaplains and in 1641 was appointed bishop of Ossory in Ireland. Shortly after his consecration the Civil War broke out and he fled from Ireland, staying for some time at Llanllechid and wandering
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), Athro prifysgol ac ysgolhaig Cymraeg Ganwyd yn Cellan Court (y Llythyrdy), Cellan, Ceredigion, ar 19 Gorffennaf 1892, mab hynaf John ac Anne (ganwyd Griffiths) Williams; ei frawd iau oedd Dr David Matthew Williams (1900 - 1970), arolygwr ysgolion. Gof oedd y tad wrth ei grefft a chan fod pum erw o dir ynghlwm wrth y tŷ, cadwai fuwch neu ddwy a mochyn yn ogystal â gweithredu fel postmon yr ardal; bu'n arwain y canu yng Nghapel yr Erw
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar Born at Cellan Court (the Post Office), Cellan, Cardiganshire, 19 July 1892, the eldest son of John and Anne (née Griffiths) Williams. His younger brother was Dr David Matthew Williams. His father was a blacksmith by trade and since there were five acres of land attached to the house, he kept a couple of cows and a pig as well as being the local postman. He was precentor at Erw Independent chapel
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 all his sons, and of Heledd, who grieves over the devastated court of her brother Cynddylan. Both stories are dated around 850. (It should be said that some modern scholars do not accept this theory). Ifor Williams's major achievement was the volume entitled Canu Aneirin (1938), in which he interprets the ' Gododdin ' as a sequence of short elegies on the members of a small band of 300 men sent by
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1757 - 1810), barrister South Wales circuit. In 1847 he was raised to the bench in the Court of Common Pleas, a post which he held until his retirement in 1865 when he was appointed to the Privy Council. Apart from republishing, 1824, his father's notes on the law in Charles II's reign, he brought out, in 1832, a standard work, A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators, which ran into seven editions in his own
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1926), baronet, Court physician, principal founder of the National Library of Wales

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