About Robert Williams
Lived 1863 – 1938 (aged 74–75). Robert Williams was a British priest and historian.
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. 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.
Howel ab Owain Gwynedd Howel y Fwyall William Hughes (d. 1600) Griffith Jones (1683–1761)
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
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archdeacon and history professor, born 1863
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Robert Williams died on 13 October 1938.
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Robert Williams was a priest and historian.
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· DBpedia: Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen)
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