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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, PENRY (1800 - 1885), painter were hung between 1822 and 1869, including portraits of John Gibson (1844) and lady Charlotte Guest (1845). He settled in Rome in 1827, where he became very friendly with John Gibson. He was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1828. Most of his pictures depict Italian views and scenes of Roman life. Some of his pictures are to be found in the National Gallery, the
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, PETER (1723 - 1796), Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator Welsh folk in their study of the Bible. His commentary on John, i, 1, aroused the suspicion that he was inclining to Sabellianism, but it was after his publication of a Welsh edition of John Canne's 'Little Bible' (1790) that the storm broke. He was accused of publishing the Sabellian heresy and at the Llandeilo C.M. Association, 1791, was excommunicated. He spent the last years of his life in bitter
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic (collected by John McIlroy and Sallie Westwood as Border Country: Raymond Williams in Adult Education (1993)) testify to the extent to which he drew on his work as extra-mural educator in the creation of his career-making volume Culture and Society (1958). A dissection of the meaning of 'culture' in English thought since industrialisation, the volume is widely identified as a progenitor for contemporary
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 Born at Winllan, Llanbryn-mair, 31 January 1802, son of Richard and Mary Williams, and brother of William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog). He was educated first at a school kept by his uncle, the Rev. John Roberts (1767 - 1834), then at the school of William Owen (1788 - 1838), and later in schools at Birmingham, Wrexham, and Liverpool. After some time had elapsed he opened a school of his own at
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1782 - 1818), composer of the hymn-tune 'Llanfair' also a musician of great repute. The tune which we now call ' Llanfair ' was at first called ' Bethel '; it is so called in Robert Williams's manuscript book, and is there dated 14 July 1817. It was first printed (again named ' Bethel') as harmonized by John Roberts (1807 - 1876) of Henllan, in the Peroriaeth Hyfryd (1837) of John Parry (1775 - 1846) His burial is recorded in Llanfechell parish
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766 - 1850), poet wrote for her is one of the most poignant in the language. Robert was friendly with the eisteddfodic poets, but after the one occasion when he failed to win the prize he never competed. He and John Richard Jones of Ramoth were staunch friends, and he assisted the latter to publish his hymn-books. His connection with Dewi Wyn, his neighbour and former pupil, is commemorated in the name of a

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