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WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician siblings William (1788-1855), Rees (1792-1849), Thomas (1793-1861), Elizabeth Ann (1794-1871) and Maria Jane were educated well, without neglecting the cultural and linguistic roots of the family, which maintained close links with the local community. The children were encouraged to learn Welsh, sing Welsh songs and play the harp. Elizabeth Ann and Maria Janeattended school in Swansea and lived the life
WILLIAMS, MORRIS (Nicander; 1809 - 1874), cleric and man of letters number of hymns. Among his publications are Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig, 1843; translations of Dr. Sutton's Disce Vivere and Disce Mori, 1847, 1848; an edition of Llyfr yr Homiliau, 1847; a metrical version of the Psalter, 1850; an edition of the works of Dafydd Ionawr, 1851; and a number of essays on church matters. An interesting selection of his letters to Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) may be found in Adgof
WILLIAMS, MOSES (1685 - 1742), cleric and scholar proof of his industry and that of his father, Samuel Williams. He was a worthy disciple of Edward Lhuyd, for he was, and still is, acknowledged to have been one of the greatest of Welsh scholars. It is not, therefore, surprising that he won the friendship and esteem of the greatest English scholars of his day, men like William Wotton, John Hudson, Thomas Hearne, and Humphrey Wanley.
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL (1656/7 - c. 1679), author son of Thomas Williams of Swansea. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 29 November 1672, and graduated B.A. 27 May 1676, but left without completing his degree by determination. He was the author of (1) A Pindaric Elegy on the famous Physician Dr. Willis, Oxon, 1675; (2) Imago Saeculi or the Image of the Age represented in four Characters, viz. the ambitious Statesman, insatiable Miser
WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL (1742 - 1826), Baptist (Particular, afterwards General) minister, theological controversialist, hymn-writer, and amateur doctor of the Father. The Baptist Assembly (Glynceiriog, 1779) dissociated itself from the opinions expressed in the Dialogus (Joshua Thomas, A History of the Baptist Association in Wales, 68). According to Joshua Thomas (Hanes y Bedyddwyr ymhlith y Cymry, 574), Williams had by this time become unpopular at Salem, and left it to go to Priory-street, Carmarthen; in the next few years his name is connected
WILLIAMS, OWEN (Owain Gwyrfai; 1790 - 1874), antiquary alone. He died at Fron Heulog, Waun-fawr, 3 October 1874, and was buried in Betws Garmon churchyard. Ioan Arfon and other friends of his collected fifty pounds to provide a suitable tomb-stone and this was unveiled, 7 March 1879. In 1904 his son, Thomas Williams, published some of his works, together with the story of his life, in Gemau Gwyrfai; and in 1911, he published another book, Gemau Môn ac
WILLIAMS, OWEN HERBERT (1884 - 1962), surgeon and Professor of Surgery Thomas, daughter of William Thomas, a shipowner from Liverpool. She was able to give him the invaluable support needed because of the frailty of his health during the last thirty years of his life. They had a daughter and two sons. He died on 6 March 1962 at his home in Liverpool and was buried in the cemetery at Bryndu, Llanfaelog on 10 March 1962.
WILLIAMS, PETER (Pedr Hir; 1847 - 1922), Baptist minister, author, and eisteddfodwr Born 1 May 1847 at Byrdir, Llanynys parish, Vale of Clwyd. His father, Thomas Williams, was a cousin of Sir Charles James Watkin Williams. He frequented the school of J. D. Jones, the musician; in 1868 he was at a Ruthin eisteddfod, enjoying the company of such varied characters as Nefydd, Talhaiarn, and Llew Llwyfo. He tried his hand at several occupations before joining the Denbighshire police
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (bu farw 1724), Baptist minister pastor of the combined churches of Olchon, Llanigon, and Trosgoed (Maes-y-berllan) - the last named only recently founded, and he remained there until his death at an advanced age in 1724. Joshua Thomas could not recollect that he had left issue. He was a prominent member of the new Welsh Baptist Association, and, at Swansea in 1704, he was one of the first to preach at its annual meetings, but it
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1747 - 1811), cleric and man of letters graduated. He was rector of Machynlleth, 1789-1805, and of Llanferres, 1805-11; he died suddenly 4 June 1811. Whether he graduated or not, it is clear that he had the scholar's temperament; he translated Seneca's tragedy, Medea, into English, and left manuscript translations into Latin of Gray's poems, and other writings. But he is chiefly remembered as Thomas Pennant's friend, and as the translator of
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads Merthyr by the sale of his ballads. And tradition has it that his 'Song on the effect of the new law, or The Workhouse' (for this see B. B. Thomas, below, 93-6) caused such an uproar among the working classes of Merthyr that the Guardians did not dare to build a workhouse in that town for nearly twenty years; he also sang during the Rebecca riots. Of his ballads, seventy-three survive in print, and
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1802 - 1842), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Liverpool. In 1830 he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hughes of Liverpool (1758 - 1828) in 1834 he gave up his school in order to become a Calvinistic Methodist preacher. He was ordained in 1835 at Bala, and spent the rest of his life as minister of Rose Place chapel, Mulberry Street, Liverpool. He was one of the founders of the Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Mission Society and, as first

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