Robert_Williams_(Archdeacon_of_Carmarthen)

Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen)

Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen)

Welsh historian (1863–1938)


Robert Williams (1863 – 13 October 1938) was Professor of History at St David's College, Lampeter.

He was born in Penycefn, Tregaron, Ceredigion. He was a history teacher in Saint David's College, Lampeter.[1] He was also vicar of Llandeilo Fawr and Archdeacon of Carmarthen.

Works

  • Y Mabinogion' (Everyman's library). Gol. gan R. Williams. Dent, h.d.
  • The Attack on the Church in Wales. "Evidence and Facts Collected and Sifted", 1912

Contributions to the DNB

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography (signing as "R. W."), and the list on this page is complete to 1901.

Works about Williams

  • Ben Davies, Robert Williams DYSG (1955) t. 206-9.
  • Ayron Jenkins, Yr Hybarch Robert Williams (1939) t. 8-12.
  • D. S. Jones, Er cof am yr Hyrbarch Robert Williams (1939) t. 13-14.
  • Williams, Robert, in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 by Foster, Joseph, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.
  • Obituary Archdeacon Robert Williams in The Times

References

  1. "Williams, Robert (1863-1938)". Ceredigion County Council. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.

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