Hugh Williams (1843–1911) was a Welsh church historian and college tutor, known also as a Presbyterian minister.
He then ran a grammar school at Menai Bridge, at the same time ministering to Calvinistic Methodists in Anglesey, and was ordained without charge (1873) in the presbyterian church of Wales.
[1] After suffering for nearly two years from arterial disease, Williams died at Bala on 11 May 1911, and was buried in the churchyard of Llanycil, Merionethshire.
Magazine articles and papers prepared the way for his major work, Christianity in Early Britain, which was issued by the Clarendon press in February 1912: Some Aspects of the Christian Church in Wales in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries (1895); The Four Disciples of Illtud (1897); the article on the Welsh church in the new edition (1889–96) of the Encyclopædia Cambrensis (Gwyddoniadur Cymreig); a review of Heinrich Zimmer's Keltische Kirche (1901) and Pelagius in Irland (1901) in the Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie (1903); and the article "Church (British)" in the Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (1910).
[1] Williams published in Welsh, including:[1] He also edited Lewis Edwards's Holiadau Athrawiaethol, Bala, 1897.
[1] On 31 December 1884 Williams married Mary, eldest daughter of Urias Bromley, Old Hall, Chester, who survives him without issue.