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WILLIAMS, JAMES (1812 - 1893) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born at Laugharne 5 November 1812; a smith by trade. He joined the Calvinistic Methodists when Lewis Edwards was minister there; he began to preach about 1835, and in 1837 entered the new Calvinistic Methodist college at Bala, walking every inch of the way from Laugharne to Bala. In 1842 he was sent to Brittany to open up a mission there; he resigned in 1862, but re-visited Brittany in 1877 and
WILLIAMS, JANE (Ysgafell; 1806 - 1885), Welsh historian and miscellaneous writer ); Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified (London, 1862), reprinted from Ainsworth's Magazine, 1849-50, and A History of Wales derived from Authentic Sources down to the end of the Tudor period (London, 1869). The lastnamed was her most ambitious work and in spite of its defects was not superseded until the publication of Sir John E. Lloyd's researches on the subject. She also wrote 'A History
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ab Ithel; 1811 - 1862), cleric and antiquary his best to organize a protest against the decision of the Privy Council in the notorious Gorham case. He worked so hard that he had two nervous break-downs - in 1849, when he was temporarily transferred to the lighter parish of Llangorwen, Cardiganshire; and in 1855 when he was forced to take sick leave for nearly two years. In March 1862, he was transferred from Llan-ym-Mawddwy (where his
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Gorfyniawc o Arfon; 1814 - 1878), musician Telyn Seion (R. Beynon), for Seren Gomer, and for some collections issued by Richard Mills. He adjudicated in various musical festivals and in the Caernarvon national eisteddfod of 1862. He died 27 March 1878, and was buried in the Liverpool Necropolis.
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads He was a native of North Wales - some say of Amlwch, some of Llannerch-y-medd, and some of Llŷn - but it was in South Wales that he really won his reputation. The dates of his birth and death are not known; but a person who heard him in 1862 thought that he was then between 70 and 75 years of age. He was at the Brecon eisteddfod in 1822. It is known, too, that he was singing at Merthyr Tydfil at
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1835 - 1906), antiquary and lawyer , 1884, 2nd ed. 1894; History of the Parish of Llanbrynmair, 1889; and articles on the history and antiquities of his native county. He edited Yorke's Royal Tribes of Wales, 1887, with full notes of his own; Caniadau Cyfeiliog, 1878, and the Mabinogion in old and modern Welsh (published by Isaac Foulkes, 1880). He translated Bacon's Essays into Welsh in 1862. He was a contributor to Bye-Gones and Y
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817 - 1870), cleric and scholar described the latest results of Biblical criticism. So in June 1862 he left Lampeter, and went to live at Broad Chalke, near Salisbury; he had accepted this living in 1858. He remained there till his death on 18 January 1870, and was buried at Broad Chalke, where there is a memorial window to him in the parish church; there is also a bronze tablet to him in the chapel of S. David's College. Williams
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (Hwfa Môn; 1823 - 1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales afterwards was raised to the pulpit by Smyrna Independent church, Llangefni; he was admitted to the Independent College, Bala, the same year. When he had completed his course he received a call from the churches at Bagillt and Flint, where he was ordained 4 June 1851. He moved to Bryn Seion, Brymbo, in 1855 and for some time was in charge of the church at Wrexham. In 1862 he went to Bethesda
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN WILLIAM (1837 - 1899), engineer, architect, and antiquary Born 7 June 1837 at Mellington Hall, Churchstoke, Montgomeryshire. He was apprenticed to an engineer in Staffordshire; later, he worked with Benjamin Piercy on the Cambrian and other railways. In 1862 he became a surveyor and estate agent at Rhayader, where he also started to practise as an architect - this being the work which appealed most strongly to him; he continued his private practice even
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM AUBREY (Gwilym Gwent; 1834 - 1891), musician Born 28 November 1834 according to Blackwell at Tredegar, Monmouthshire; when he was 10 years of age he sang alto in a choir conducted by his uncle in Rhymney. A blacksmith by trade, he moved when quite young to Blaenau Gwent ('Blaina'), where he became conductor of the local band. He married in 1862. He won the prize at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod of 1865 for a duet for female voices, together
teulu WOOD, Welsh gipsies Pleser a Gofid ' Sal o'r Sowth ' claims that she is related to Abram Wood. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists. The principal source of the history of the tribe is the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society (see under ' Wood ' in the 'Names' section of the indexes to the various volumes), and above all the articles contributed by John Sampson (1862
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author abroad in Paris and Rome before being sent to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1858. He joined the Life Guards as a cornet in 1862. In 1867 he obtained leave to go as a war correspondent with the British expedition to Abyssinia, commanded by General Sir Robert Napier, later Lord Napier of Magdala, the brother of Captain Napier, the first Chief Constable of Glamorgan. While on the expedition he shared a tent

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