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Peter Williams died on 8th August 1796 at Gelli Lednais, Llandyfaelog, where he settled after his marriage to Mary Jenkins of Llanlluan in 1748. His grave in Llandyfaelog churchyard is still a place of pilgrimage.
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George Gilbert Treherne Treherne, 1837-1923, youngest son of Rees Goring Thomas of Llannon. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he rowed for the University in the boat race of 1859, and after graduating from Balliol qualified as a solicitor in 1865. It was after leaving Oxford that he changed his surname. A leading Carmarthenshire antiquary, Treherne had a special interest in Eglwyscymyn, about which he published papers, and discovered the famous Latin-Ogam inscription there. He was a founder of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society in 1905, of which he was the first president, and contributed many articles to its transactions. | |||||||
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George Gilbert Treherne Treherne, 1837-1923, youngest son of Rees Goring Thomas of Llannon. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he rowed for the University in the boat race of 1859, and after graduating from Balliol qualified as a solicitor in 1865. It was after leaving Oxford that he changed his surname. A leading Carmarthenshire antiquary, Treherne had a special interest in Eglwyscymyn, about which he published papers, and discovered the famous Latin-Ogam inscription there. He was a founder of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society in 1905, of which he was the first president, and contributed many articles to its transactions. | |||||||
| Titus Lewis, 1773-1811, a native of Cilgerran, who settled in Carmarthen in 1801 to minister to the Baptist chapel in the Dark Gate. He distinguished himself in his preaching and writing and in 1805 published a Welsh-English dictionary. | ||||||||