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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RICHARD (1896 - 1962), minister (Presb.) and Principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth Church, Swansea (1922-25). He was appointed assistant lecturer at Aberystwyth Theological College (1925-27), and then became Professor of the Philosophy of Religion (1927-28), and of Greek and N.T. exegesis (1928-49). He was principal of the college from 1949 until he died in 1962. In 1928 he married Violet Irene Evans of Swansea, and they had a son. W.R. Williams died 18 December 1962. He was a
WILLIAMS, ZEPHANIAH (1795 - 1874), Chartist Chartist leader. When it was decided to march on Newport on the night of 3 November 1839, Williams was entrusted with the leadership of the contingent of Chartists which met near Nant-y-glo. After the riot he was arrested on board ship at Cardiff, 23 November, tried and condemned to death, but had his sentence commuted to transportation for life. In Tasmania he made attempts to escape, but eventually
WILLIAMSON, ROBERT (MONA) (Bardd Du Môn; 1807 - 1852), teacher and poet ,' aged 3, was buried in August 1840. The writer was buried 24 December 1910, his age being given as 70 - thus agreeing with the tombstone. If this is correct, he was christened somewhere else.
WILLIS, ALBERT CHARLES (1876 - 1954), president of the Australian Labour Party Association, New South Wales. From 1916 until 1925 he was the first general secretary of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, and in 1923 he founded the Labour newspaper Labor Daily at Sydney, and acted as its managing director. Willis was also the president of the Australian Labor Party, New South Wales, 1923-25. He became a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales in 1925 and
WILSON, JOHN (1626 - c.1695/6), playwright , Andronicus Comnenius, 1664, and Belphegor, 1690. The Cheats was very popular and held the stage to the end of the century. Act 3, scene 3, lines 145-193, contain many references to the Welsh, and the curious remark, ' I suckt a Welsh Nurse, and soe by a Synedoche may be calld a Welch Man.'
teulu WOGAN 1660 was excepted from the Act of Oblivion. He surrendered on 27 June 1664 and was imprisoned, but on 27 July 1664 he escaped from the Tower with other prisoners. It seems that he fled to Holland, and in 1666 he was in Utrecht. He was still alive in 1669 (Trans. Cymm., 1946-7, 214). The Wogans remained at Wiston until the estate was sold to John Campbell (lord Cawdor) in 1794. (3) Boulston. In the
teulu WOOD, Welsh gipsies ) in the summer number of Lleufer, 1952, pp.57-65. (2) ALABAINA WOOD Her name in some districts became synonymous with 'gipsy.' J. Glyn Davies published some interesting details about her in the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society, 1929, 143-4. (3) THOMAS WOOD Born in a barn at Llan-y-bydder, and died at Ruthin at the age of 95. He had nine children, among whom may be mentioned (a) ROBERT WOOD, a
teulu WYNN Bodewryd, third wife, Jane, daughter of Rhys ap Howell. He died 1 March 1596/7, leaving the estate to his son, JOHN WYN EDWARD, who also styled himself JOHN EDWARD AP HUGH GWYN and JOHN EDWARDS. Under him the family advanced to a higher grade in society. He was collector of the subsidy in Anglesey in 1600, and was appointed escheator in 1606. In 1612-3 he was high sheriff of the county. He died in 1614 (before
teulu WYNN Gwydir, . (Gesail Gyfarch went to his half-brother, Humphrey). He rebuilt Gwydir in 1555 and was Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1551-3, and high sheriff for Caernarvonshire, 1544-5, 1553-4, and 1556-7. The career of his son, MAURICE WYNN (died 18 August 1580), was similar. The first to adopt the name ' Wynn ' as a surname, he was Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1553, 1554, 1559, and 1563-7
teulu WYNN Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, , Montgomeryshire, and through whom the Ynysmaengwyn line was continued, (2) Jane, (3) Elizabeth, and (4) Rachel. Corbet Owen and Richard Owen, the sons of Ann and Athelstan Owen, left no heirs, the line being continued by their sister ANN OWEN (died 1767) and her husband, PRYSE MAURICE (1699 - 1799), Lloran Ucha, etc., who assumed the name of CORBET, as did others who succeeded him, the last being ATHELSTAN JOHN
teulu WYNN Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, co-heiress of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, he was the father of OWEN WYNN (died 1682/3), of Glyn and Ystumcegid, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Robert Mostyn, of Nant, Flintshire, the issue of the marriage being two daughters, (1) MARGARET (died 1727), who married Sir ROBERT OWEN (died 1698), of Clenennau and Brogyntyn who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth, 1681-85, and was
teulu WYNN Wynnstay, to the family. That was when the 'King's Head' hotel in Llangollen became the ' Royal Hotel '. There were even greater celebrations when he came of age in 1841. He married his cousin Marie Emily, daughter of Sir Henry Williams Wynn, K.C.B., in St. James's church, London, 25 April 1852. A tragedy, which brought a host of messages of sympathy from individuals and public bodies in Wales, occurred 5

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