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WILLIAMS, DAVID DAVID (1862 - 1938), minister (Presb.) and author Presbyterian Church in Wales. He published the following books: Dyfyniadau llên Cymru (1909); Deuddeg o feirdd y Berwyn (1910); Twm o'r Nant (1911); Geirfa Prifeirdd (1911); Dylanwad y Rhufeiniaid ar iaith, gwareiddiad a gwaedoliaeth y Cymry (1912); Hanes mynachdai gogledd Cymru (1914); Cymry enwog cyfnod y Tuduriaid (1914); Addysg Cymru yn y Canol Oesoedd (1914); Hanes dirwest yng Ngwynedd (1921); Thomas
WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1870 - 1951), schoolmaster Born 18 February 1870 in Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, one of the 13 children of Thomas Williams, collier, and his wife. Though he began work as a boy in the mines he showed early ability and in 1882 he won the Gelligaer Scholarship to Lewis' School, Pengam. The register of that school notes Bargod Board School as his previous school and his father's address as Greenfield Terrace, Bargoed. He was
WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Born 3 February 1870 at Tal-y-bont, in the Vale of Conwy, where his father John Williams was Calvinistic Methodist minister. The family moved to Old Colwyn in 1882. Llewelyn Williams was educated at the Tal-y-bont primary school and at Old Colwyn (where he was a contemporary of Thomas Gwynn Jones) and at a private residential school at Llandudno. In 1885 he was apprenticed in a chemist's shop in
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian ), Cilfowyr, John Gomer Lewis (1844 - 1914), and David Price (1865 - 1931), both of Swansea, and Anthony Williams (1845 - 1913), Ystrad Rhondda; and also Rhys Jones Lloyd (1827 - 1904), the son of Bronwydd mansion, Llangynllo, the rector of Troed-yr-aur, and his troubled Independent neighbour Thomas Cynfelyn Benjamin (1850 - 1925), Pen-y-graig, upon whose grave in Llethr-ddu cemetery Trealaw D.P.W. played a
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor Born 14 November 1750 at Glanclwyd (between Denbigh and Bodfari) where his family had lived for 150 years before that; the son of Thomas and Anne Williams. His parents were members of the Church of England, and as he himself was intended for holy orders he was first sent to S. Asaph grammar school, and afterwards to Derwen, to be coached by the parish priest. He lost the desire to enter the
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Morgan. He also had the opportunity to read Welsh manuscripts. Thomas Richards, Coychurch, and John Walters, Llandough, must be listed among his teachers - and this accounts for the great interest which he took in the vocabulary of the Welsh language. Thus it was that he began to grow into a Welsh scholar. He learnt his father's craft, that of a stonemason. He journeyed in North Wales c. 1771-2 and, in
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer ' of his early days at the foot of the Prescelly hills; Tua'r cyfnos (1943), a prize-winning novel in a competition held by Llyfrau'r Dryw; a biography of Thomas Phillips, 1868-1936 (1946), Principal of the Baptist College Cardiff Dan y sêr, a programme presented by Urdd y Seren Fore at the Assembly of the Baptist Union of Wales at Brynaman, 1948; and two travel books, Crwydro Sir Benfro (1958, 1960
WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner Born 2 July 1871, son of Thomas Williams, colliery owner, of Llwyn Gwern, Pontarddulais, Glamorganshire. Educated at Christ College, Brecon, and Clare College, Cambridge, he returned to Carmarthenshire in 1892 to assist in his father's colliery company. His election in 1913 as chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners Association marked the beginning of a long period of prominence
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher father was living at Pen-y-graig, and the Calvinistic Methodists of that district used to meet at his house until their chapel at Rhiw-bwys was built. Reckoning from the record of his death, Evan Williams was born in 1749. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig grammar school under Edward Richard, like his brothers, John ('the old Sir,' 1745/6 - 1818), Thomas, DAVID (warden of Hungerford almshouse, rector of
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler date of birth is uncertain and she may have been one of the three Frances Williamses baptized in the parishes of Halkyn, Flint or Northop, Flintshire in 1760 and 1762. As a young, unmarried woman, she was employed by Griffith at Wibnant cottage near Holywell - the home rented to him by his master Thomas Pennant, esquire of Downing, following his marriage to Margaret Jones in January 1781. By August
WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN (Baron Williams of Mostyn), (1941 - 2003), lawyer and politician Gareth Williams was born on 5 February 1941 near Prestatyn, Flintshire. He was the third child of Albert Thomas Williams (died 1964), a primary school headmaster, and his wife Selina (née Evans, died 1985). He had a sister, Catrin, and a brother John. Welsh was been the language of his home in Mostyn and, reputedly, he first learnt English with the aid of Linguaphone records. He was educated at
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar national eisteddfod and lectured to local societies and in 1960 he was elected the first president of the Welsh Academy. He also gave much time to research into the history of individual works, by virtue of his membership of the editorial board of the Dictionary of the University of Wales. He took great pride in the fact that R.J. Thomas (1908 - 1976), one of the most brilliant of his former students

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