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WILLIAMS, Y Fonesig ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND (Alys Mallt, Y Fonesig Mallt Williams; 1867 - 1950), author and celtophile Celts, London 1889, and A Maid of Cymru, London 1901. Gwenfrida died in 1914. As Maud Williams of Aberclydach (Llanfigan, Brecknockshire), Mallt was the second person to join Urdd y Delyn founded by Owen M. Edwards in 1896. For years this League offered prizes for penillion singing, harp-playing, reading Welsh books and speaking Welsh. Later she used to present prizes for the harp, under the name of
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity Amgoed controversy (see under Jeremy Owen) may be regarded as another consequence of the dispute.
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1877 - 1927), Calvinistic Methodist minister and college tutor Born 4 May 1877 at Holyhead; son of Eliezer and Elizabeth Williams; the father (died 1914), a Flintshire man, a carpenter, an elder in his church, was a man widely read in theology, and acquired some knowledge of Greek; the mother (died 1923) kept a shop. The son went to school at Holyhead, at Beaumaris, and at Oswestry under Owen Owen, (1850 - 1920), and thence to University College, Aberystwyth
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Alaw Goch; 1809 - 1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr Born 12 July 1809 at Llwyn Drain in the parish of Ystrad Owen, Glamorganshire. About 1821 his parents removed to Aberdare, and for a time he followed his father's trade as a sawyer. But he soon left that for coal-mining, and with marked ability, grit, perseverance, and a large measure of luck he soon attained a prominent position in the coal-mining world of South Wales. His first attempt at
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian registered for two years as a part-time student at Carmarthen Presbyterian College under M.B. Owen (1875 - 1949). He moved in 1913 to Philadelphia, Swansea (he was with the Y.M.C.A. in Kent for a short while during World War I), and thence to Libanus, Treherbert, in 1920 where he remained for the rest of his life, greatly influential and highly respected. The first 30 years of his life were spent at home
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer its functions regularly and presided over the St. David's Ball at the Royal Festival Hall. He also presided at a great festival held at the Albert Hall in March 1958 to prepare for the British Commonwealth Games at Cardiff that summer and to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Owen Edwards. Lord Ogmore did not speak Welsh as a child, but learned it as an adult and became a firm defender of the
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher , Awdlau; John Williams, An Enquiry … concerning the Discovery of America; M. Williams, A Treasury of Knowledge). In the following year E. Williams appears with J. Owen as publishers of W. Owen Pughe, The Heroic Elegies of Llywarch Hen. Other important books begun by the brothers, and continued by E. Williams alone, are A Welsh and English Dictionary by Owen Pughe, and the Cambrian Register, 1795-1818
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian education, but he had for some years an ambition to enter the Welsh Baptist ministry, and so studied Welsh in the sixth form, in addition to English and History. A brilliant student, he was given a State Scholarship, a Merthyr Scholarship, and a Sir Owen M. Edwards Scholarship to study at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1937. In Aberystwyth, where he played a prominent part in student life
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet ' Goronwy Owen ' and George III's Jubilee in 1803 and 1810. He died 18 September 1838, and was buried at Llandygài.
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar . These were the poems that Iolo sent to London to Owen Jones, ' Owain Myfyr ' and William Owen Pughe, the editors of the book, claiming that he had copied them from old manuscripts that had been kept safely in Glamorgan. The three adjudicators were John Morris Jones, T. Gwynn Jones and W. J. Gruffydd. The only competitor was G.J. Williams who produced a lengthy and careful essay that proved
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist that Powell's mantle in Montgomeryshire had fallen on Henry Williams, and he says also that the preacher, as in Propagation days, went over the border to succour the Puritans of Radnor. The records give the impression that he was a quiet man of sterling character, fond of the ways of peace; Calamy, using the recollections of James Owen, goes out of his way to pay tribute to his work and self
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author , Bangor, and he adds that he was there at the same time as Goronwy Owen. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in June 1740, 'aged 18,' and graduated in 1744. He became curate of Llanengan (1745-51), rector of Llanfrothen and perpetual curate of Beddgelert (1751-4), and rector of Aberffraw from 15 February 1754 (when the Morrises had hoped to get the living for Goronwy Owen) until his death. Hugh Williams

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