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WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister , but it is known that he subsequently preached a great deal in North Wales. ' He was a kindly man,' says John Evans of Bala, ' and the freshness of the dew was on his sermons '; Robert Jones of Rhos-lan adds that he was an able theologian. He went to live at Llyswyrny (' Lisworney ') village, near Cowbridge, where he was in charge of the small local societies and where he married Elizabeth, daughter
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709 - 1784), Independent minister up and down Eglwysilan parish, who used to meet in private houses until 1739, when a chapel was built near the mansion of Thomas Price (' Justice Price ') at Watford (also written 'Waterford' and 'Votford' - originally, perhaps, Bodffordd), on the hill-side between Cardiff and Caerphilly. At first, David Williams's ministry was as vigorous as that of his friends James Davies (died 1760) of Merthyr
WILLIAMS, DAVID CHRISTMAS (1871 - 1926), musician Born 12 September 1871 at Llanwrtyd, Brecknock, the son of Gruffydd Christmas and Elizabeth (Evans). By the time he was 14 he had composed several pieces of music. When he was 17 he went to Cardiff to take courses in music under Dr. Joseph Parry, to whom (in 1890) he became an assistant; he was also made organist and choirmaster at a chapel in Penarth. He soon came into prominence as a composer
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 JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer English and physical education teacher at Fishguard Grammar School, 1919-36, and then Welsh master there from 1937 until his retirement in 1945. In 1925 he married Siân Evans, daughter of Dan Evans, minister of Hawen (Congl.) church, and Mary his wife, and sister of the poet William Evans, ' Wil Ifan '. They made their home in the Bristol Trader, Fishguard, which became a meeting place for hosts of
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 , and Samuel Jones (1875 - 1935), St. Mellons, were ministers. The son followed his mother to the Baptist fold, began to preach in 1903 and passed the denominational examinations with distinction the following year. In 1908 he entered the Dunoon Evangelical College (Baptist mainly) in Kirn, Argyllshire, and at the end of the two-year course he was ordained, 21 May 1910, minister of Ffynnonhenri, and
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

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