Dinah Williams

Dinah Williams born Dinah Eiluned Lyon Jones (23 July 1911 – 3 September 2009) was a British organic farmer. She was an early member of the Soil Association and she owned the first Welsh dairy farm to be recognised as organic.

Life Williams was born in "Crugiau" near Aberystwyth in 1911. She was the middle child of three. Her parents named her Dinah Eiluned Lyon Jones. Her father, Abel Edwin Jones, would become a professor of agriculture at the University College of Wales. Her Scottish mother, Bessie Brown MBE, was the first instructor of dairy farming at the university. Her father died when she was twelve

They were open to new ideas and she was sent to Ukraine in a group led by Sir John Russell of the Rothamsted agricultural research station. She was impressed by the new ideas but hated the repressive life they led under Stalin. She married in the 1930s and they started their own small holding. Her mother later decided to retire and passed on the farm to Dinah's brother. After the World War II they moved to a 150 acre farm named "Brynllys Farm".

Death and legacy She lived to the age of 98. In 2009, Teleri Bevan published a book They Dared to Make a Difference, detailing the lives of the three family generations at Brynllys farm. In 2021 a Purple Plaque was installed on a cow byre at her home in Borth to mark her achievements and pioneering work.