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WILLIAMS, CYRIL GLYNDWR (1921 - 2004), theologian Testament gifts within the contemporary church. By now very much a liberal in his doctrinal views - he had come to interpret both Christ's resurrection and his Virgin Birth as symbolic rather than actual truths - he nevertheless continued to value the concept of Christian mission overseas. During his retirement years he was increasingly captivated by the life and labours of Timothy Richard, the nineteenth
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity outline is all that is necessary. His ministry in Ireland lasted from 1664 to 1687, when he went to London as minister of Hand Alley, Bishopsgate, occasionally deputizing for Richard Baxter as ' lecturer ' (preacher) at Pinners' Hall. When Baxter died (1691) Williams was appointed to succeed him, but was deprived of the post in the storm which followed his attacks on the higher Calvinism of Crisp and
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1878 - 1968), minister (Meth.) and author Born 17 June 1878, son of Richard Williams, a worker in the Penmaen Quarries, and his wife Anne, at Bodnant, Llanfairfechan, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at the village National School and spent two years at the Cynffig Davies School in Menai Bridge, before being accepted in 1901 as a ministerial candidate in the Methodist church. He served a pre-college year at Llanbedr, Meironnydd, before
WILLIAMS, DANIEL HOWELL (1894 - 1963), aerodynamicist Born 27 June, 1894 at Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, the son of Griffith J. Williams, schoolmaster, and his wife, Mary Helena. He was registered as Daniel John but later adopted his mother's maiden name, Howell. His father was later H.M. Inspector of Mines for north Wales. He was a nephew of Sir Richard J. Williams, Mayor of Bangor, 1913-20. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor and in October
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born at Is-coed, Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, son of William Dafydd. Richard William Dafydd, the exhorter, was his brother. As a young man he came to Glamorgan to work for Christopher Bassett, junior of Aberthaw, and began to exhort in the Methodist societies c. 1742. It is not certain whether he was the David Williams who was appointed a ' private exhorter ' at the Watford Association, 1743
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Ogmore, died on 30 November 1998. Lord Ogmore was succeeded in his barony by his elder son, Gwilym Rees Rees-Williams, 2nd Baron Ogmore (5 May 1931 - 9 November 2004), who left two daughters; and by his younger son, Morgan Rees Rees-Williams, 3rd Baron Ogmore (born 19 December 1937). Elizabeth Rees-Williams (born 1 May 1936) married (1) Richard Harris, the actor, 1957-1970; (2) Rex Harrison, the actor
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher father was living at Pen-y-graig, and the Calvinistic Methodists of that district used to meet at his house until their chapel at Rhiw-bwys was built. Reckoning from the record of his death, Evan Williams was born in 1749. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig grammar school under Edward Richard, like his brothers, John ('the old Sir,' 1745/6 - 1818), Thomas, DAVID (warden of Hungerford almshouse, rector of
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1706 - ?), harpist Antient British Music, 1742. He settled in London as teacher of the harp and obtained a post as harpist in a church; from references made to him by William Morris it would appear that he played the organ also. In the (Welsh) Book of Common Prayer, edited by Richard Morris (1770), are twenty-four psalm-tunes, the first printed tunes made available for use by Welsh people. Evan Williams performed a
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian turned down as unfit for military service when he presented himself for a medical at Pontypridd. In June 1941 he was awarded a First Class Honours degree, which gave him confidence to embark on an MA research project on the life of the sixteenth-century bishop Richard Davies. At Aberystwyth in the summer of 1941 he met his future wife, Fay Davies of Cardiff, a fellow history student slightly his junior
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author Richard Bulkeley in 1621, taking as his text Psalm cxiv, 5. In July 1644 he preached at the funeral of Katherine, daughter of William Lewis of Llandygài, when archbishop John Williams and the bishop of Bangor were present, and he is mentioned as one of the mourners at the burial of archbishop John Williams at Llandygài in 1650. He was appointed rector of Trefdraeth in 1626 and dean of Bangor in 1634. In
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1824 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author , but in 1855 moved to Talsarnau, where he married (producing a large family) and opened a shop. He was ordained in 1857. He is chiefly remembered for his dry wit. He also wrote entertainingly in the periodicals, and published three books: Cofiant y Parch. Richard Humphreys, Dyffryn, 1873; Yr Hynod William Ellis, Maentwrog, 1875 (the story of an old elder); and Bwthyn fy Nhaid Oliver, 1880, 2nd ed
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist -sacrifice. He was buried at Llanllwchaearn, 2 April 1684. A somewhat long elegy to his memory was written by Richard Davis, minister of Rothwell in Northants, who was married to his daughter Rosamond. Jane Williams the historian was a distant descendant of Henry Williams, and by her pen-name renewed the memory of the old home of Ysgafell.

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