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  • WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian of his Welsh essays on religious leaders in Wales, Grym Tafodau Tân in 1985, together with a short bilingual study of Henry Tudor. He himself had persuaded Oxford University Press to launch a series of standard general histories of Wales, the first of which appeared in 1981, and in 1987 he produced for this series a second magnum opus entitled Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415
  • WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet Born 2 February 1769 at Hafod Olau, Waun-fawr, Caernarfonshire. His father was William, second son of Edward Williams of Llwyn-celyn, Llanberis, and his mother was Catrin, daughter of Morgan Gruffydd ('Morgan y Gogrwr') of Llŷn. He started life as a farm worker but later found employment at the Penrhyn quarry where, in due course, he became a foreman. He broke his ankle in an accident in the
  • WILLIAMS, GWILYM (1839 - 1906), judge Born at Ynyscynon, Aberdare, elder son of David Williams (Alaw Goch) and his wife, Ann, the sister of William Morgan (1819 - 1878), poet. He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school, the Normal College, Swansea, and in France. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple, 1863, and in the same year, on the death of his father, a wealthy landowner, as the proprietor of the Miskin estate with valuable
  • WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter He was born at 11 Lower Row, Pen-y-wern, Dowlais, Glamorgan, on 30 September 1925. He was one of three children born to Thomas John Williams (1892-1971) and Gwladys Williams née Morgan (1896-1983), both of whom were schoolteachers. His roots were deep in the iron-making town and he took pride in being the archetypal 'bachgen bach o Ddowlais' (little boy from Dowlais). The house where he was
  • 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
  • WILLIAMS, HENRY PARRY - gweler PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY
  • WILLIAMS, HUGH (1796 - 1874), solicitor and political agitator Williams died at Cobden Villa, Ferryside, 19 October 1874, and was buried in the churchyard of S. Ishmael, Ferryside. His widow, who remarried, died 25 February 1909. Hugh Williams is important because of his connections with the Chartist and 'Rebecca' movements. At an early date he had become the friend of Henry Hetherington and James Watson, two of the twelve authors of the People's Charter. In 1836 he
  • WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar Welsh language (Cymmrodor, xxvi). Sir Ifor's studies in this field were new and original and made a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the background of Dafydd ap Gwilym's life and work. It was the same desire to produce texts for the use of students that prompted the publication of Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac Eraill in 1925, jointly with Thomas Roberts and Henry Lewis. Sir Ifor also edited the works
  • WILLIAMS, ISAAC (1802 - 1865), cleric, poet, and theologian year went into residence as a tutor in philosophy. In 1833 he was made dean of the college. He was rhetoric lecturer from 1834 to 1840 and vice-president of his college in 1841-2. Soon after his return to Trinity College he became curate to John Henry Newman at S. Mary's, Oxford. They became very firm friends, and when the Oxford Movement threatened the unity of the Church, Isaac Williams quickly
  • WILLIAMS, JANE (Ysgafell; 1806 - 1885), Welsh historian and miscellaneous writer She was the daughter of David and Eleanor Williams of Riley Street, Chelsea, where she was born on 1 February 1806. Her father, who held an appointment in the Navy office, was descended from Henry Williams (1624?-1684), of Ysgafell, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, a friend of Vavasor Powell. Owing to her weak health she spent the first half of her life at Neuadd Felen, near Talgarth, Brecknock
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith John Williams junior's will that Henry Cary (first viscount Falkland, and father of the Civil War hero) had become bound 'in greate somme of money' to the elder John Williams. An even more exalted borrower appears in an entry in Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 28 September 1621 : 'grant and sale to John Williams, goldsmith, of certain jewels as security for a loan to the King of £3,000 and
  • WILLIAMS, JOHN (Glanmor; 1811 - 1891), cleric, poet, and antiquary . Vinogradoff and F. Morgan, British Academy, London, 1914) is an improvement on the early chapters of The Records of Denbigh and its Lordship. This last-named work, however, has extracts from the borough registers and lists of the officials and sheriffs which are not available elsewhere.