About Jonathan Williams
Lived 1752 – 1829 (aged 76–77). Jonathan Williams was a historian.
Jonathan Williams (c. 1752 – 19 August 1829) was a Welsh clergyman, schoolmaster and antiquarian writer.
He was born at Rhayader, some time between 1752 and 1754, the son of a draper, and had two brothers who also went into the church. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, going on to teach at the grammar school in Leominster on the English-Welsh border. He was also curate of nearby Eyton. At Leominster he got married, and had two daughters.
Works History of Leominster History of Radnorshire (1905) (posthumously published)
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Welsh historian
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Jonathan Williams was born in 1752 in Rhayader.
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Jonathan Williams died on 19 August 1829.
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Jonathan Williams was a historian.
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