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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
WILLIAMS, FOULK ROBERT (Eos Llyfnwy; 1774 - 1870), musician Born at Hendreforion-bach, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, (and christened 6 October 1774), the son of Robert William, weaver, and Lowry his wife. Owing to his gift as a singer he came to be called ' Ffowc bach y canwr '; later he was known as Foulk Roberts. When he was 17 he received music lessons for a period of three months from John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), these lessons being paid for by some
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler voluntarily or spurred on by the Justice we cannot tell. Margaret related how she had gone to inform Pennant's butler, William Cooper, of the event before going on to Downing to tell the story to Pennant himself. When word came from the butler's maid, Elizabeth Jones, that she had found a hat believed to be Frances Williams's in the nearby field of Dole Bychton, Pennant sent Cooper in pursuit of the
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet quarry and was out of work and under the care of Dr. Robert Isaac of Ymwlch Fawr for nine months. He was at that time lodging in the house of Abraham Williams (Bardd Du Eryri) at Gwaun-y-gwiail, Llanllechid, and he was lent books and given instruction by Bardd Du; that was how he came to learn the laws of prosody. He was created a bard ' according to the rights and usages of the bards of the Isle of
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar main field of his research from then until the end of his life. At the national eisteddfod held at Neath in 1918, he won the main essay competition on the subject ' The Bards of Glamorgan to the end of the 18th century '. In 1919 he published articles about the work of Iolo in Y Beirniad. As a result he was awarded a fellowship of the University of Wales so that he could continue his studies in this
WILLIAMS, HENRY (1624 - 1684), Puritan preacher, prominent as a free-communion Baptist other hand are the persistent traditions about the quasi-miraculous wonders of ' Cae'r Fendith ' (the Field of Blessing); Joshua Thomas the historian had a good look at the field in 1745; Dr. William Richards gave a prominent place to the story in his Cambro-British Biography, and David Davies (1849 - 1926) a more prominent place still in his biography of Vavasor Powell. Henry Maurice, in 1675, said

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