Died 1914. Barrister and writer. Born Aberdare. Coalminer’s son. Schoolmaster, stipendiary magistrate.

(1717–1791), born in Carmarthenshire: an important hymn-writer and leading figure in the Methodist movement in Wales.

Son of tenant farmer from Llansadwrn. Liberal MP, lawyer, historian, supporter of Cymru Fydd.

(1795–1874). From Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Williams was one of the leaders of the Newport Rising, 1839, in which he led the march from Nantyglo to Newport. With Frost, John, he was as a result convicted of treason but had his death-sentence commuted to transportation for life to Tasmania. With Frost, he was pardoned in 1856, but remained for the rest of his life in Tasmania.

A movement set up to campaign for women’s rights.

Treatry stating that the Princes of Gwynedd were henceforth to hold their territories as feudal vassals of the English Crown.

Confirmed Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (Llywelyn Fawr/Llywelyn the Great) in possession of all his recent conquests.

Established in 1836 by William Lovett and Henry Hetherington. Initiated the Charter from which Chartism eventually took its name. Hetherington was a close friend of Hugh Williams of Carmarthen (the solicitor who defended participants in the Rebecca Riots, and a Chartist) and in 1837 Williams became Secretary of the W.M.A. branch in Carmarthen. In 1838/9 about 50 branches of the W.M.A. were started in the south Wales coalfield. The movement fought to secure rights for the industrial working class.

Came in the social and economic scale below gentry but above husbandmen. Technically held land worth £2 per annum and above. The lowest rank allowed to read the Bible.

Nineteenth-century Liberal radical Welsh-language newspaper.