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WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister them to seek refuge in Swansea. Joseph Harris (Gomer) gave the family shelter and kept Williams to preach to English congregations at Swansea and to instruct his son John in the classics. He died 10 January 1823. ' P. A. Môn ' composed an elegiac awdl, and Caledfryn elegiac englynion in his memory.
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Alaw Goch; 1809 - 1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr becoming a coal-owner was in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed) at Ynyscynon, Cwm-bach, where they began sinking a pit in 1847, and entered into a lease of a coal-mine, dated 31 December 1844, for 48 years (N.L.W. Ewenny MS. 374). After Lewis gave up, David Williams carried on alone. After being successful here, he soon opened another colliery at Aberaman, obtaining a lease from Crawshay Bailey
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer Born in 1738 at Waunwaelod (later the Carpenters' Arms), in the parish of Eglwysilan, near the Watford chapel, on a by-road between Caerphilly and Cardiff. His father was William David (born at Llwynybarcud, in the parish of Llanharry). He was educated at a school kept in the neighbourhood by his namesake, David Williams (1709 - 1784), Dissenting minister of the Trinity chapel, Womanby Street
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1799 - 1869), Member of Parliament - gweler WILLIAMS
WILLIAMS, DAVID CHRISTMAS (1871 - 1926), musician
WILLIAMS, DAVID DAVID (1862 - 1938), minister (Presb.) and author Born at Garth Lwynog, Croesor, Merionethshire, son of David and Grace Williams. He was educated at Gelli-gaer Grammar School, Bala College, and at the university colleges of Aberystwyth and Cardiff. He was ordained in 1891, and served his ministry at Peniel, Ffestiniog (1890-96); Oswestry (1896-1906); Moss Side, Manchester (1906-15); and David Street (later Belvidere Road), Liverpool (1915-38
WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART PARRY - gweler PARRY-WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART
WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1897 - 1972), Labour politician He was born at Gwauncaegurwen on 3 February 1897, the son of Morgan Williams, a coalminer, and Margaretta Jones. He was educated at Gwauncaergurwen elementary school. He began work as a coalminer in 1911, and was then a student at the Marxist Central Labour College, 1919-21. He was unemployed before spending the year 1922-23 at Ruskin College, Oxford and he published the important volume
WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1870 - 1951), schoolmaster Born 18 February 1870 in Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, one of the 13 children of Thomas Williams, collier, and his wife. Though he began work as a boy in the mines he showed early ability and in 1882 he won the Gelligaer Scholarship to Lewis' School, Pengam. The register of that school notes Bargod Board School as his previous school and his father's address as Greenfield Terrace, Bargoed. He was
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1950), schoolmaster and author Born at Corris 22 August 1886, son of H. Williams ('Ap Idris') and Sarah, his wife. Educated at Corris Board School, Towyn County School, Hull Municipal Training College (1913-15), ' D.J. ' started teaching at Corris as monitor, afterwards pupil-teacher. He taught as Uncertificated Assistant at Newbridge, Monmouth 1905-08, Uncertificated Head at Cwm Abergeirw (1908-10), Bronaber (1910-13), as
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer Born at Pen-rhiw, a farmhouse in the parish of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, 26 June 1885, the elder child of John and Sarah (née Morgans) Williams. The family moved to Aber-nant in 1891 and he went to Rhydcymerau school, 1891-98. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a coalminer at Ferndale, Rhondda; Betws, Ammanford and Blaendulais. He resumed his education in 1906 at Stephens' School, Llanybydder. After
WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Born 3 February 1870 at Tal-y-bont, in the Vale of Conwy, where his father John Williams was Calvinistic Methodist minister. The family moved to Old Colwyn in 1882. Llewelyn Williams was educated at the Tal-y-bont primary school and at Old Colwyn (where he was a contemporary of Thomas Gwynn Jones) and at a private residential school at Llandudno. In 1885 he was apprenticed in a chemist's shop in

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