1 | Daniel Evans, The Life and Work of William Williams, M.P. (Gomerian Press, Llandyssul. 1939), p. 15. The author of this biography, from which the present writer has freely drawn, was a great-grandson of Williams's younger sister Beti; he became a figure in the public life of Sheffield. |
2 | The Red Dragon, 1883, p.387. |
3 | A Second Letter on the present Defective State of Education in Wales, published by Williams in 1848 during the Blue Books controversy. |
4 | Parliaments were then septennial. |
5 | Quoted by Daniel Evans, op. cit., p. 34. |
6 | A friend of Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St. Davids, he became famous as the author of The History of Greece, published in 1846-7. See The Carmarthenshire Historian, Vol. XIII, p. 72. [can't find reference, maybe a different volume? -- ChrisJones] |
7 | D. L. Keir, The Constitutional History of Modern Britain (Black), 3rd edition, 1946, p. 444. |
8 | Mechanics' Institutes were set up in Carmarthenshire in 1839-40. |
9 | D. L. Keir, op. cit., p. 472. |
10 | This indicates that Williams must have had a reputation as a champion of the oppressed before he was elected to public office. |
11 | This was the college visited by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 1979. |
12 | The Chartist disturbances of 1839. |
13 | This was the beginning of the Department of Education |
14 | David Williams, A History of Modern Wales (Murray, 1965), p. 254. |
15 | The other volumes, Parts II and III of the reports, relate to the areas for which Symons and Johnson were responsible. |
16 | He became M.P. for Chester. His vast collection of books, many relating to Wales, was given to University College, Cardiff. |
17 | D. Salmon, 'The Story of a Welsh Education Commission', Y Cymmrodor, Vol. XXIV, p.192. |
18 | D. Salmon, op. cit., p. 192. |
19 | (Sir) T. Merchant Williams, 'The Romance of Welsh Education', Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmr 1901-2. |
20 | Gwynfor Evans, Land of My Fathers (John Penry Press 1974), p. 366. |
21 | D. Silman, loc. cit. |
22 | Leslie Wynne Evans, Studies in Welsh Education (University of Wales Press, 1972), p. 120. |
23 | Leslie W. Evans, Education in Industrial Wales, 1700—1900 (Avalon Books 1971), pp. 26 and 126. |
24 | Gwynfor Evans, op. cit., p.374. |
25 | The Coventry Herald, quoted by Daniel Evans, op. cit., pp.108-9. |
26 | Quoted by Daniel Evans, op. cit., p.116. |
27 | It has been said that the government deputed Inglis to refuse Queen Caroline admission to Westminster Abbey for the coronation of George IV. —See Dictionary of National Biography. |
28 | Daniel Evans, op. cit., pp.297-9. |
29 | Daniel Evans, op. cit., p.141. |
30 | Y Traethodydd (1850), p.257. English translation quoted by Daniel Evans, op. cit., p.309. |
31 | A personal memory, recorded in Welsh, by the Rev. Evan Davies, Cwmdwyfran, and quoted by Daniel Evans, op. cit., p.310. |
32 | The Welshman, 11 September, 1846. |
33 | Rev. Evan Davies, loc. cit. |
34 | The present writer was among those in attendance at this commemorative meeting. |
35 | Wife of D. H. Evans, of Oxford Street, London, who was a grandson of Williams's sister, Beti. |