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WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner Powell Duffryn, Rhymney Iron and Coal, Welsh Associated Collieries, Great Western Railway and Lloyd's Bank. He was also a vice-president of the Federation of British Industries and served on a number of official or technical organisations connected with the coal industry. He married in 1903 Charlotte Mary, daughter of David Lackie, J.P. of Montrose. There were no children. In 1922-23 he was High
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher 1795 until his death. He established a bookselling business with his brother Thomas at No. 13, Strand. The brother remained only for ten years or so in partnership, but Evan Williams continued for over forty years. The brothers began to publish books of Welsh interest. Up to 1800 the name of E. & T. Williams appears as booksellers in imprints (e.g. in 1791, in Walter Davies, Rhyddid; D. Thomas
WILLIAMS, GEORGE (1879 - 1951), company director and Lord Mayor of Cardiff Born 2 December 1879 at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the son of Frederick and Mary A. Williams, he was educated at Haverfordwest Grammar School. From 1920 to 1945 he was in business as a builder's merchant and he was also a managing director of numerous companies, among them Williams and Borgars Ltd., Camrose Estates Ltd. and Whitehead's Electrical Inventions Ltd. During the 1930s he was to the
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian turned down as unfit for military service when he presented himself for a medical at Pontypridd. In June 1941 he was awarded a First Class Honours degree, which gave him confidence to embark on an MA research project on the life of the sixteenth-century bishop Richard Davies. At Aberystwyth in the summer of 1941 he met his future wife, Fay Davies of Cardiff, a fellow history student slightly his junior
WILLIAMS, GRACE MARY (1906 - 1977), composer , which achieved considerable fame. Grace was educated at Barry Girls' Grammar School and was much influenced by her music teacher Rhyda Jones, who had recently graduated from UCW Aberystwyth where she had been taught by Walford Davies. Her pupil proceeded to the University College in Cardiff where she studied music under David Evans and took her B.Mus. in 1926. She recalled that the course in Cardiff
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1854 - 1933), schoolmaster, geologist, and antiquary he published articles on the Manod and Moelwyn mountains; these were rewarded by a grant out of the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society. He was also a talented musician and had some gift as a poet. He married, May 1881, Mary Helena (died 1916), daughter of Daniel Howell, Gellidywyll Mills, Llanbryn-mair; there were seven children of the marriage. His Hanes Plwyf Ffestiniog was published in
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar . degree for a dissertation on ' The verbal forms in the Mabinogion and Bruts '. In the meantime, with the encouragement of J.H. Davies and with the assistance of an additional scholarship he set about studying the Llanover manuscripts, which were donated to the National Library in 1917. That is how he began to take an interest in the life and work of Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), which became the
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.) Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff. He was a person of wide culture and interests, and he was prominent in the life of his denomination, being Moderator of the General Assembly (1948) and Moderator of the North Wales Association (1956). He was also chairman both of the Forward Movement and of the Praise Committee of his Connexion. He took a great interest in hymns and hymn tunes, and co-operated with E.T. Davies
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist other hand are the persistent traditions about the quasi-miraculous wonders of ' Cae'r Fendith ' (the Field of Blessing); Joshua Thomas the historian had a good look at the field in 1745; Dr. William Richards gave a prominent place to the story in his Cambro-British Biography, and David Davies (1849 - 1926) a more prominent place still in his biography of Vavasor Powell. Henry Maurice, in 1675, said
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator ninety-nine-year lease. On frequent occasions Hugh Williams sought to break the lease, and, against the wishes of his wife, unsuccessfully brought an ejectment action against the lessee at the Carmarthen spring assizes of 1842. Eventually he obtained possession of the property, and when an illegitimate child of his, Eleanor Margaret Anne (born 16 November 1847, the daughter of Mary Jenkins), was
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author and Goronwy were 'dear' friends, according to the latter; in the collection of Goronwy's letters there are several references to him, and there is one letter addressed to him; but except for Goronwy's last letter to Richard Morris (1767), in which he enquired whether Hugh Williams was still alive, they all belong to the years 1752-5. As J. H. Davies has pointed out, the letter usually believed to
WILLIAMS, HUGH (Hywel Cernyw; 1843 - 1937), Baptist minister, writer, and poet Born 13 April 1843 at Pentre, Llangernyw, son of Moses and Mary Williams. He began to take an interest in literature at an early age, and lyrics and englynion written by him appeared in Yr Athraw in 1860, when he was only 17 years of age. He was admitted to the Baptist College, Llangollen, in January 1863, and was ordained to the ministry at Staylittle and Dylife, Montgomeryshire in December 1865

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