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WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1810 - 1881), cleric, Celtic scholar and antiquary reliable. His most important works have been noticed above, but he made other contributions to scholarship to which reference must be made. He published The History and Antiquities of the Town of Aberconway (Denbigh, 1835); he revised many of the notes to the new edition (Oswestry, 1878) of the The history of the Gwydir family by Sir John Wynne; he translated 'The Book of Taliesin' for W. F. Skene's Four
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1848 - 1918), architect, author and social reformer Edward and Joseph, he opened a larger premises on Cherif Pasha Street, Alexandria, which was refurbished by Williams, using red Aberdeen granite and Doulting stone. Most notable of all, however, is the St David Building in Cairo, a massive emporium designed by Williams in 1910 for the Davies Bryan brothers. The building still stands, inscribed 'y gwir yn erbyn y byd' (truth against the world), along
WILLIAMS, Sir ROGER (1540? - 1595), soldier and author There were three persons bearing this name who must be distinguished one from another - (1) Sir Roger Williams (1604? - 1683), founder of the colony of Rhode Island, U.S.A.; he used to be claimed as a Welshman, afterwards as a Cornishman, but now it can be fairly confidently stated that he was the son of a James Williams, ' citizen and merchant taylor of London,' and his wife Alice; (2) Roger
WILLIAMS, Sir ROWLAND LOMAX BOWDLER VAUGHAN (1838 - 1916), judge - gweler WILLIAMS, JOHN
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN JOSEPH (1896 - 1992), Welsh scholar
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778 - 1835), poet Farddoniaeth Cadair … a Gorsedd Pendefigaeth Morganwg a Gwent …, 1826. Gwilym Morgannwg's work had already been seen in print: among the compositions sent in to the Carmarthen eisteddfod, 1819, and later published in Awen Dyfed (1822), were his ode 'on the death of the outstanding military officer, Sir Thomas Picton', this by the intervention of Iolo Morganwg, since Gwilym Morgannwg had broken the
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Eos Gwynfa, Eos y Mynydd; c. 1769 - 1848), poet , 1844. His carols were held in high esteem in a countryside famous for Christmas dawn services. Two of his sons entered the ministry, Joseph, who was at one time minister at Llansilin, and John, who later joined the Baptists.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (fl. end of the 18th century), attorney, outstanding figure in the copper industry the bishop had done his utmost in 1796 to prevent the election of Sir Robert Williams, Bulkeley's half-brother, as Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire; Uxbridge was deeply offended with the bishop because of his provocative delay in building a new church at Amlwch; these are the main considerations behind the theory that it was Williams who wrote the savage pamphlet against Warren which
WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT PARRY- - gweler PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT
WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS MARCHANT (1845 - 1914), barrister and writer
WILLIAMS, THOMAS OSWALD (ap Gwarnant; 1888 - 1965), Unitarian minister, author, poet and public figure giants, denominational homes and denominational chapels, publishing the latter part of this series as Hanes cynulleidfaoedd Undodaidd sir Aberteifi (1930). In the same magazine he published a series of critical articles on his contemporaries, ' Gwŷr blaenllaw yr enwad ' under the pen-name ' Gwalch Ogwr '. He published Hanes Caeronnen in 1954 and the comprehensive volume Undodiaeth a rhyddid meddwl in
WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR (c. 1623 - 1692) Llangibby, politician descended from the marriage of Howel Gam ap David (fl. 1300) to a daughter of the Scudamore family. The surname was first adopted by his grandfather, Roger Williams (died 1583), who was sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1562 and was succeeded in the office in 1627 by his son, Sir Charles Williams; the latter, Sir Trevor's father, knighted in 1621, also represented the county in Parliament that year

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