WILLIAMS, HUGH: Welsh Presbyterian; b. at Menai Bridge (6 m. n. of Carnarvon), Carnarvonshire, Sept. 17, 1843. He was educated at Calvinistic Methodist College, Bala, Wales, and the University of London (B.A., 1870; M.A., 1871), and, after being master of the grammar-school at Menai Bridge (1871-73), was ordained to the ministry in 1873; was appointed professor of Greek at Bala College (1874-91), and when the college was made a theological institution (1891) his appointment was changed to his present chair of church history. In theology he " welcomes the progress and expansion due to all modern research " and " retains in the main a position of faithful adherence " to the standards of his church. He has prepared a Welsh "Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians" (Carnarvon, 1892) and "Handbook on the Sacraments of the Church" (Bala, 1894) and edited Gildas's De excidio Britanniee (London, 1901).

WILLIAMS, ISAAC: Church of England, poet and harmonist; b. at Cwmcynfeyln, near Aberystwith (40 m. n.n.e. of Carmarthen), Wales, Dec. 12, 1802; d. at Stinchcombe (12 m. s.w. of Gloucester) May 1, 1865. He studied with Polehampton of Eton and King's College, and at Harrow, and then at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A., 1826; M.A., 1831; fellow, 1831; and B.D., 1839); was ordained deacon, 1829, and became curate of Windrush-cumSherborne; was ordained priest, 1832, and became tutor at Trinity College, Oxford; philosophy lecturer, 1832, and dean of the college, 1833; was rhetoric .lecturer, 1834-40; and vice-president, 1840-42. Soon after his settlement at Trinity College he became curate to John H. Newman at St. Mary's, Oxford, and later had charge of the church at Littlemore. He was curate to Thomas Keble at Bialey, 1842-48; and at Stinchcombe, near Dursley, 1848-65. . He was associated with Newman and Keble in Lyra APostolica and Tracts for the Times, writing Tracts 80, 86, and 87. His literary industry was great, and his works embrace commentaries on the Psalms, the Gospels, and the Apocalypse; The Cathedral, or the Catholic and the Apostolic Church of England. In Verse (Oxford, 1838); A Harmony of the Four Evangelists (London, 1850); A Short Memoir of R. A. Suckling, with Correspondence and Sermons (1852); and many sermons, individual and in series. He was also a writer of hymns, but none of them had great currency.

Bibliography: His Autobiography, ed. Sir G. Provost, appeared London, 1892. Consult also: S. W. Duffield, English Hymns, pp. 329-330, New York, 1886; R. W. Church, The Oxford Movement, pp. 57-69, London, 1891; W. R. W. Stephens, Life of Edward Freeman, i. 43-50, ib. 1895; DNB, Ixi. 408-411; Julian, Hymnology, pp. 1282-1284.