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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RETLAW JEFFERSON (c.1863 - 1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian the African continent from the Cape to Cairo in 1909-10. He died in 1920. The second son, William Retlaw (which is Walter in reverse) became a solicitor in 1884, and had offices at Brecon and Tal-y-bont on Usk. There was a tradition of practising law in the family. The grandfather, Howell Williams, had married a sister of Walter Powell, the senior partner in the firm of Powell, Jones and Powell
WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM RICHARD (1879 - 1961), railway traffic inspector Born 18 March 1879 son of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Agnes his wife, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire. He married, 8 April 1902, Mabel Escott Melluish but had no children. Known in railway circles as ' the man who achieved a schoolboy's ambition to run a railway ', Sir William was educated in Cardiff and began his career with the Rhymney Railway Company in 1893 as a junior clerk. He was put in
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RICHARD (1896 - 1962), minister (Presb.) and Principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SIDNEY GWYNN (1896 - 1978), musician and administrator
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM WYN (1876 - 1936), minister and poet
WILLIAMS-ELLIS, JOHN CLOUGH (1833 - 1913), scholar, clergyman, poet and possibly the first Welshman to climb one of the highest mountains in the Alps 1855 won the Royal Humane Society medal for rescuing a friend from drowning in the River Cam. He was familiar with the mountains of Snowdonia as a follower of the Ynysfor hounds and in 1857 went on a tour in the Alps with J.F. Hardy. On 13 August, accompanied by William and St. John Mathews, E.S. Kennedy, Hardy and five guides, he climbed the Finsteraarhorn (4,274 m.), the highest peak in Bern
WILLIAMS-WYNN, Sir ROBERT WILLIAM HERBERT WATKIN (1862 - 1951) - gweler WYNN
WILLIAMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM (1892 - 1953), Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
WILLIS, JOHN WILLIAM - gweler WILLIS-BUND, JOHN WILLIAM
WILLIS-BUND, JOHN WILLIAM (1843 - 1928), writer on the history of the Welsh Church
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter A member of the Wilson family of Bwlch-y-llyn and Y Ffinnant, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire., one of the old Welsh families of Arwystli. HUGH WILSON, M.A. (1651 - 1687), vicar Religion of Trefeglwys (1674) and also of Llangurig (1676), was the son of RICHARD (died 1688) and Joanna (died 1678) Wilson, Bwlch-y-llyn, Trefeglwys. He married (1679) Maria (died 1688), widow of William Lloyd, Maes-bangor
WINSTONE, JAMES (1863 - 1921) South Wales, miners' leader Born at Risca, Monmouthshire, 1863, son of William and Hannah Winstone. He started to work at 8 years of age in a brick-works, and then at the Risca colliery. He had to leave owing to his trade union activities and went to Treharris. He was, however, appointed check–weighman at Risca, and in 1901, made miners' agent for the eastern valleys district. He was one of the founders of the South Wales

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1825 - 1836 of 1867 for "William Glyn"