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WILLIAMS, ANNA (1706 - 1783), author daughter of Zachariah Williams; was born at Rosemarket, Pembrokeshire. She went to London with her father about 1727 and lived in straitened circumstances for a time with him in the Charterhouse, a breach of rules which led to his expulsion therefrom. In 1740 she became almost blind, but supported herself by her needle. Her translation of Bleterie's ' Life of the Emperor Julian ' appeared in 1746
WILLIAMS, ANNE (bu farw 1770), heiress - gweler WILLIAMS
WILLIAMS, ARTHUR WYNN (1819 - 1886), physician and antiquary
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN (Gwynionydd; 1821 - 1891), cleric and author
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN HAYDN (1902 - 1965), education officer Son of Benjamin and Margaret Jane Williams; born 9 October 1902, at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire. Educated at Ruabon grammar school, he was a pupil-teacher, 1921-22, and then a student at Liverpool University. He gained a degree in science, with high honours in chemistry, and within two years graduated Ph.D. From 1927-31 he undertook research work with the Department of Scientific and
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN MORRIS (1832 - 1903), musician
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1832 - 1890), barrister and educationist Born 19 November 1832, eldest son of Thomas Rayson Williams, Independent minister, Merryvale, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, and Mira, his wife. From 1846 to 1851 he was a student at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, where he adopted the Unitarian faith. Proceeding as a Dr. Williams scholar to Glasgow University in 1851, he graduated B.A. in 1853 and M.A. in 1854, and was also senior logic prizeman
WILLIAMS, BRANDON MEREDITH RHYS- - gweler RHYS-WILLIAMS, BRANDON MEREDITH
WILLIAMS, CATHERINE ANNE - gweler WILLIAMS, HUGH
WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1633 - 1720), benefactor of his native town majority, subject to the condition that he added the name ' Williams ' to his own surname; this was done in 1729 (see Hanbury-Williams, Sir Charles). In his will, he left £4,000 to found a charity school for thirty boys and twenty girls in Caerleon-on-Usk, and to pay for their apprenticing - so far as the balance permitted; the school was built in 1724. Moreover, in a codicil (23 August 1720), he left a
WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1807? - 1877), principal of Jesus College, Oxford Born in 1807? christened 22 June 1807, third son of William Williams (1765 - 1847), a Dolgelley man who was for fifty-nine years master of Cowbridge grammar school. From that school, Charles Williams went up to Jesus College in 1823, graduated in 1827 with a 'first' in classics and a 'second' in mathematics, and was Fellow of his college from 1829 till 1845. He received a M.A. degree in 1830, B.D
WILLIAMS, Sir CHARLES (bu farw 1642), politician - gweler WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR

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