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WILLIAMS, DAVID (1793? - 1845), author Born at Landore, Glamorganshire, c. 1793, becoming in course of time a member of the Congregational church at Mynydd-bach. He emigrated to Mexico, leaving Haverfordwest on 12 March 1825, and reaching Vera Cruz on 13 May; he had learnt Spanish during the voyage. He published Llythyrau Cymro yn Mexico at ei Gyfeillion yn Nglandwr wrth Abertawy … (Abertawy, 1827). Two parts were issued out of three
WILLIAMS, DAVID CHRISTMAS (1871 - 1926), musician graduated Mus.Bac. (Cantab.) in 1912; he later became Mus.Doc. (Dublin). In 1913 he became honorary conductor of the Merthyr choral society. He died 21 March 1926. and was buried in Llanwrtyd churchyard.
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian Born 1 March 1878 and brought up in Y Wenallt, parish of Troed-yr-aur (Trefdreyr), Cardiganshire. His father Ivor Pryse Williams (1850 - 1920) was the son of the writer priest Benjamin Williams ('Gwynionydd '; 1821 - 1891) and his mother Elizabeth the daughter of a Baptist family of Bethel church, Dre-fach Felindre, whose two brothers, David Phillip Jones (1850 - 1884), Felin-gwm and Llanfynydd
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer the frontier peoples with the work of the new constitution for Burma'. He arrived at Rangoon on 2 March 1947 and found that the Secretary to the Committee was W. B. J. Ledwidge, a young man from the Burma Office, whose 'blue shirt, khaki shorts and pink ankle socks infuriated the Governor and none too pleasing to me'. The Director of the Frontier Areas was John Lamb Leyden OBE, a Flintshire man
WILLIAMS, EDMUND (1717 - 1742), early hymnist of the Methodist revival He was a native of Cwmtillery, Monmouth, and one of the converts made by Howel Harris on his first preaching visit to Monmouthshire in March-April 1738. A churchman of good family and well-to-do, he was educated and devout, and under Harris's influence became a ' much respected exhorter among the Methodists.' He and Morgan John Lewis, his friend and fellow-convert, published a collection of Welsh
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Son of Edward Williams of the village of Pennon in the parish of Llancarfan, Glamorganshire. He was born (according to his own account) on 10 March 1747. His parents moved afterwards to the neighbouring village of Trefflemin (Flimston) and that was his home, apart from short intervals, until his death. He says himself that he did not attend any school but that he learnt to read whilst watching
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1750 - 1813), Independent divine and tutor Society (1795). In 1795 he became principal of the Independent Academy at Rotherham, Yorkshire, where he died 9 March 1813. An English biography was published by Joseph Gilbert, 1825. Throughout his career he drove himself and his students mercilessly. While at Oswestry, he published abridged versions of Mathias Maurice's Social Religion and Dr. John Owen's commentary on the Hebrews; he later helped to
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer ). He was also responsible for the weekly column, ' Yn y ty wrth y tân ', in The South Wales Guardian. On 11 August 1936 he married at Rhydwilym Eiluned James, Maenclochog, and they had a daughter. He died suddenly on 17 January 1960, and was buried in Rhydwilym cemetery. A memorial service was held at Rhydwilym, 5 February 1960, and a programme was performed at Maenclochog on 21 March 1979 as a
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1724 - 1758), Welsh Moravian Born in Merioneth, 27 March 1724, a tailor. At 16, he went to London, and thence to Haverfordwest, but in 1748 he was in Bristol, a foundation-member of the Moravian society there (1748) and of the Congregation (1755). He was a studious man, knew several languages, and made a Welsh translation of Zinzendorff's ' Berlin Discourses ' - this was revised and published in 1760 by John Gambold. In
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler Bay, which had been the destination originally intended for a settlement and penal colony. During the journey or shortly afterwards, Frances began a relationship with a private in the Marines 32nd (Portsmouth) Company of the Prince of Wales, Robert Ryan (b. 1758) from Newry, Armagh. By March 1790 the pair had reached Norfolk Island, Frances nursing their daughter, Sarah Williams, who had been born
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian : on 7 February 2005 he lectured in Oxford as part of a series to honour the coming retirement of Professor Sir Rees Davies, but was stricken with a cold on his way home by train in the bitter winter weather, which led him to be admitted to Morriston Hospital, Swansea, within a few days, and there he died on 24 February, of heart failure. He was cremated on 8 March at Swansea Crematorium in a service
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author about until the Restoration. During this time he visited Ireland on several occasions and, in 1647, was appointed rector of Rathfarnham. In 1661 he resumed his bishopric and is said to have been the first to pray publicly in Ireland for king Charles II. He died 29 March 1673, and was buried in Ossory cathedral. He left to the poor property in Llanllechid, Conway, and Llandygài. He published The

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