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WILLIAMS, JOHN (1727 - 1798), Dissenting minister, scholar and author Born at Lampeter, Cardiganshire, 25 March 1727. After training for the ministry at Carmarthen Academy under Evan Davies and Samuel Thomas, he held pastorates at Stamford, Lincolnshire, 1752-5; Wokingham, Berks., 1755-67; and Sydenham, Kent, 1767-95. He was appointed librarian of Dr. Williams's Library in 1777. From the date of his retirement from that position, in 1782, until his death he was one
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1926), baronet, Court physician, principal founder of the National Library of Wales 1894; he was made a K.C.V.O. in 1902, and G.C.V.O. in 1911; he was also awarded honorary doctorates (LL.D. - by the Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, and D.Sc. - by the University of Wales in 1905). Sir John Williams was responsible, in part, for the inauguration of the ' Record Series ' published by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion. In 1903 he decided to return to Wales (to Plas
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1801 - 1859), physician and naturalist Born in 1801 at Pentre'r Felin, Llansantffraid, in the Conway valley, second son of Cadwaladr Williams, miller, Cadwaladr Williams was the cousin of John Jones of Tal-y-sarn (1796 - 1857) - their fathers being brothers. John Williams was educated in Liverpool, but so great was his desire to become a naturalist that much of his time was spent at Ashridge and in Kew gardens. He was apprenticed to
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Madog; 1812 - 1878), blacksmith and poet
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan ap Ioan; 1800 - 1871), Baptist minister and author original sayings, but he is best remembered to-day as a poet and biographer. He published (1) Lloffyn y Prydydd, 1839, a volume of poetry, in both strict and free metres, on Biblical, social, and local subjects and including a number of elegies; (2) Cofiant … Dafydd Saunders, Merthyr, 1842; (3) Cofiant y Parch John Jones, Llandyssil, 1859; and (4) a biography of Benjamin Thomas, Baptist minister, Penrhiw
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1745/6 - 1818), cleric and schoolmaster ordained deacon by bishop Moss of S. Davids, 26 December 1768. He received priest's orders on 19 August 1770; and in January 1771, he went to Ross, Herefordshire, as curate and schoolmaster. He stayed there till the autumn of 1776, when his health broke down; but he returned to his native Cardiganshire and began to get better. When Edward Richard died in 1777, John Williams was appointed in his stead, on
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ab Ithel; 1811 - 1862), cleric and antiquary later critics - not only because he was quite incapable of editing old manuscripts diplomatically but because he plagiarised the ideas of men like Aneurin Owen and Thomas Rowland without acknowledgement. But the high-water mark of his folly was the 'Great Llangollen Eisteddfod' (1858), organised by himself and his friends such as Môr Meirion (R. W. Morgan) and Carn Ingli (Joseph Hughes), which aroused
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1728 - 1806), hymn-writer He is said to have been born at Blaen Pennal, Cardiganshire, and to have been the brother of David Williams (1717 - 1792) of Llyswyrny; but this belief is without foundation. He was a cooper by trade and for many years kept a shop at St Athan, Glamorganshire. He is probably the 'John Williams, Carpenter,' who married Mary Voss at S. Athan, 24 June 1755; he subsequently married three other wives
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1760 - 1826), cleric and schoolmaster son of John Williams, agent to the Gwydir Estate, Llanrwst. Educated at Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 15 May 1777, aged 17, B.A. 1781, M.A. Fellow of his college), he was ordained in the diocese of Bangor, 19 September 1784, and licensed to the chapelry of Betws-y-Coed. He became master of the Free school, Llanrwst, and ' Lecturer,' in 1791, being also perpetual curate of Dolwyddelan and
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1627 - 1673), Nonconformist preacher, and physician Born at Tyn-y-coed (=' Castellmarch Uchaf') in Llŷn, of a county family, his parents being William and Mary Jones. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, 7 March 1647, 'aged 20,' in order to study medicine. Several of the gentry round about his home had espoused the Puritan cause as he himself had done, and it is said that after he had started preaching he was for a time chaplain to colonel John Jones
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1762 - 1802), Evangelical cleric Born at Fishguard, the son of John Williams. His father died; his mother married again; and his step-father sent him to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1783. The title-page of his book of sermons styles him B.A., but there is no record of his having graduated, and indeed he was ordained in May 1785, i.e. two years after entering Oxford. Dr. John Phillips (1730 - 1814) gave him a curacy and made him
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Mai; 1823 - 1887), poet he had six children. He died 14 October 1887, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard. A selection of his sermons was included in the published volume of his works edited by John Lloyd Pierce.

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