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teulu WILLIAMS Cochwillan, , Montgomeryshire, grandson of Henry Williams, sold a tenement in Bodfeio to Sir Robert Williams of Penrhyn - probably the last remnant of the estate (Penrhyn MSS. 101, 244, 274-6, 460; Cal. Wynn Papers, 988; Edwards, Star Chamb. Procs., 152, 155, 156; Smith, Cal. Salusbury Corr., 217; T. I. J. Jones, Exchequer Procs., James I, 279; Griffith, Pedigrees, 186). GRIFFITH WILLIAMS (bu farw 1663), deputy vice-admiral
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN MORRIS (1832 - 1903), musician Born 28 December 1832 at Pen-y-braich, near the Cae Braich y Cafn quarry, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He started to work in the quarry when he was only eight, received a year's schooling when he was twelve, and then resumed work in the quarry. In 1853 he began to learn the work of printing music in the printing office of Robert Jones, Bethesda; it was he who set up the music of ' Storm Tiberias
WILLIAMS, CHRISTMAS PRICE (1881 - 1965), politician and engineer Africa, and held a number of important managerial positions. Williams undertook research work on the industrial potential of Canada. In 1924 he was elected M.P. (Lib.) for Wrexham following an electoral pact with local Conservatives, when he defeated the historian Robert Richards. He was bitterly disappointed when Richards re-captured the seat in 1929, and his political career came to an abrupt end. He
WILLIAMS, DANIEL HOWELL (1894 - 1963), aerodynamicist National Physical Laboratory was concerned with theoretical and wind tunnel work on airships and in this he was associated with Dr. Robert Jones. However, he soon moved away from this to the wind tunnel study of aircraft performance. At this time the general theories underlying the study of aircraft wings (aerofoils) were still the subject of controversy. In 1924 Dan Williams and L.W. Bryant carried out
WILLIAMS, DANIEL JENKINS (1874 - 1952), minister (MC\/Presb.) and official historian of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church of America Born Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, USA, 22 December 1874, the son of Robert H. Williams (born near Gwalchmai, Anglesey, 1844), and Jane Mary (née Jenkins; born Wisconsin, daughter of Welsh immigrants). Education: A.B. (U. Wis.), 1899; M.A. (U.Wis.), 1900; B.D. (Union Theol. Sem.), 1903; Ph.D. (Ohio State University), 1914; D.D. (Carroll Col., Wis.), 1918; student of Celtic Literature, Oxford, 1904-05
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1717 - 1792), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister , but it is known that he subsequently preached a great deal in North Wales. ' He was a kindly man,' says John Evans of Bala, ' and the freshness of the dew was on his sermons '; Robert Jones of Rhos-lan adds that he was an able theologian. He went to live at Llyswyrny (' Lisworney ') village, near Cowbridge, where he was in charge of the small local societies and where he married Elizabeth, daughter
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer Christian nationalist that D.J. took to writing. Basically he was a pastoral writer, the recorder of visual memories. He was in his middle age and early old-age when he produced the works which will be of lasting value. Like his hero, William Llewelyn Williams, he held a deep love for the rural life of Carmarthenshire, but he did not rest content with sentimentality. He saw the Wales that he found worth
WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Rhyl, but at the age of 25 he entered Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh where he had a brilliant career. He graduated in 1900 and after obtaining a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, by examination, he specialized in the field of public health. After holding posts in Edinburgh and Leith hospitals and as a ship's doctor with the P. and O. Line, he was appointed borough medical officer for
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer Alexandra Constance Wills, the daughter of Walter Robert Wills, Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1945-46. They had three children: Gwilym Rees, Joan Elizabeth, and Morgan Rees. Lord Ogmore died at the Westminster Hospital on 30 August 1976; the funeral was held on 3 September at the United Reform Church, Allen Street, London, and, later on the same day, at the Mid-Glamorgan Crematorium, Coychurch. Constance, Lady
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher valuable list of publications in Welsh or relating to Wales. He married Frances, eldest daughter of Robert Neat of Saltross, Wiltshire. She died in 1814 at the age of 52. He was 86 when he died at Penton Street, 25 August 1835. He was buried in the churchyard of S. James, Pentonville. His brother THOMAS WILLIAMS (1755 - 1839) Economics and Money turned to banking and returned to his native county, taking
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 JAMES (1903 - 1945), physicist leading founders of quantum physics and an authority in the field. Consequently the institute attracted physicists from far and wide - a wonderful opportunity for Williams to discuss and exchange ideas with some of the most able thinkers in atomic physics. The year spent in Copenhagen proved to be very fruitful for Williams. One outcome was the development of a theoretical method for analysing atomic

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