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WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher Heytesbury, and father of C. J. Blasius Williams, the expert on pulmonary diseases), and WILLIAM, rector of Llanstinan. He went to London and became interested in the Welsh movements in the city. In 1789 he became a member of the Gwyneddigion Society, but he does not appear to have held any of its offices. He was a trustee of the Welsh Charity School, and his name appears regularly in its minute books from
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1706 - ?), harpist Born at Llangybi, Caernarfonshire. (The following entry is in the baptisms register of Llangybi church - ' September about 29 was baptized Evan, son of Humphrey Robert (Singer) and Jane Griffith his wife.' Nothing is known of his youth. He was an excellent harpist. Like many Welsh musicians he went to London (c. 1740). He assisted John Parry, Ruabon, to collect material for and bring out his
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1816? - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and artist Born in Lledrod, Cardiganshire, c.1816. For four years he was a missioner amongst Welsh people in London. He began to preach at Mold in 1848; he went to live to Caernarvon in 1851, and was ordained in 1859. He had no pastoral charge. He was best known as a portrait and landscape painter, and was usually called Evan Williams the limner'. He painted the portraits of several contemporaries
WILLIAMS, FOULK ROBERT (Eos Llyfnwy; 1774 - 1870), musician gentleman. For many years he visited certain districts in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire to teach congregational singing. The National Library of Wales has a 1,158-page manuscript called ' Llyfr Cerddoriaeth o Gerddi Sion …, compiled c. 1834 by Foulk Roberts; this manuscript contains anthems, hymn-tunes, carols, old airs, etc., the compiler and collector being designated as 'Foulk Roberts (Eos Llyfnwy
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler became involved with two further partners - John Cropper (c.1756-c.1822) and Noah Nathaniel Mortimer (1761-1846), both convicts transported to Australia. Between 1791 and 1796, she gave birth to further children - Elizabeth, Jane and James, Jane the daughter of Cropper although Ryan fathered the fourth child, James. Sometime during 1801 Frances died on Norfolk Island, leaving her children in the hands
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian of his Welsh essays on religious leaders in Wales, Grym Tafodau Tân in 1985, together with a short bilingual study of Henry Tudor. He himself had persuaded Oxford University Press to launch a series of standard general histories of Wales, the first of which appeared in 1981, and in 1987 he produced for this series a second magnum opus entitled Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1854 - 1933), schoolmaster, geologist, and antiquary Normal College; he taught at Corwen (1876) and Tanygrisiau as assistant master, as headmaster at the British school, Blaenau Ffestiniog, eventually (in 1883) becoming headmaster of the Higher Grade school, Blaenau Ffestiniog. G. J. Williams became well-known in North Wales as a geologist. In 1895 he was appointed assistant inspector of mines (under C. Le Neve Foster) in North Wales and Ireland. In 1891
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.) in translating and arranging several of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, such as Aros di gyda ni (1919), Amser Duw, goreu yw (1922), Iesu dyrchafedig (1922), and The Short Passion (St. Matthew's Gospel) (1931, 1932 and 1933). Having learnt the rules of cynghanedd from Dyfed (Evan Rees) who was one-time a lodger at his parents' home, he often composed englynion, &c. He contributed occasionally to Y
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator Born 18 February 1796 at Gelli-goch, Is-garreg, a mile and a half from Machynlleth on the road to Derwen-las, the son of Hugh Williams and his wife, Elinor Evans. Azariah Shadrach lived with the family for a time (c. 1801) at Gelli-goch, and acted as schoolmaster to the children. Of them, JOHN WILLIAMS practised as a solicitor at Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn Road, London, from 1829 onwards
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1862 - 1953), minister (Presb.), and Biblical commentator Born in 1862 at Rhos-goch, Rhos-y-bol, Anglesey. He began to preach c. 1885-86 at Gorslwyd, and he superintended Rhos-goch church for many years. He was educated at Gwredog School, and as a protégé of the Gwredog family he entered Bala College. The principal Thomas Charles Edwards took an interest in him, and he became his private secretary for a period; he translated into Welsh the principal's
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith . John Williams cared for other things besides money. He is credited by the attorney-general in 1678 with having founded, c. 1608, the well-known free school at Llanrwst, and the alms-houses there; the Crown averred that the original scheme was to set up these institutions at Dolwyddelan (qua the founder's birthplace?), but that this proved too expensive. The execution of the project, says the Crown
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Siôn Singer; c. 1750 - 1807), musician and Baptist minister

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