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WILLIAMS, GWENFRIDA (bu farw 1914), author - gweler WILLIAMS, ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND
WILLIAMS, GWILYM (1839 - 1906), judge Born at Ynyscynon, Aberdare, elder son of David Williams (Alaw Goch) and his wife, Ann, the sister of William Morgan (1819 - 1878), poet. He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school, the Normal College, Swansea, and in France. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple, 1863, and in the same year, on the death of his father, a wealthy landowner, as the proprietor of the Miskin estate with valuable
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.) Born 3 October 1879 at Cardiff, son of John Williams and his wife, both of Merionethshire. After leaving school he worked in a shipping-office, but within a few years he began to preach at Heol y Crwys church. He was educated at the University College, Cardiff (where he gained an honours degree in English), and at the theological colleges of his denomination at Trefeca and Aberystwyth. He was
WILLIAMS, GWLADYS MARION GRIFFITH - gweler EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH
WILLIAMS, GWLADYS PERRIE - gweler MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN
WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter He was born at 11 Lower Row, Pen-y-wern, Dowlais, Glamorgan, on 30 September 1925. He was one of three children born to Thomas John Williams (1892-1971) and Gwladys Williams née Morgan (1896-1983), both of whom were schoolteachers. His roots were deep in the iron-making town and he took pride in being the archetypal 'bachgen bach o Ddowlais' (little boy from Dowlais). The house where he was
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist -sacrifice. He was buried at Llanllwchaearn, 2 April 1684. A somewhat long elegy to his memory was written by Richard Davis, minister of Rothwell in Northants, who was married to his daughter Rosamond. Jane Williams the historian was a distant descendant of Henry Williams, and by her pen-name renewed the memory of the old home of Ysgafell.
WILLIAMS, HENRY PARRY - gweler PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator Born 18 February 1796 at Gelli-goch, Is-garreg, a mile and a half from Machynlleth on the road to Derwen-las, the son of Hugh Williams and his wife, Elinor Evans. Azariah Shadrach lived with the family for a time (c. 1801) at Gelli-goch, and acted as schoolmaster to the children. Of them, JOHN WILLIAMS practised as a solicitor at Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn Road, London, from 1829 onwards
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, 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, HUGH (Cadfan; 1807? - 1870), printer and journalist

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