title: Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen)
text: # Robert Williams (archdeacon of Carmarthen)
  
  Robert Williams (1863 – 13 October 1938) was Professor of History at St David's College, Lampeter.
  
  He was born in Penycefn, Tregaron, Ceredigion. He was a history teacher in Saint David's College, Lampeter. He was also vicar of Llandeilo Fawr and Archdeacon of Carmarthen.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Y Mabinogion' (Everyman's library). Gol. gan R. Williams. Dent, h.d.
  * The Attack on the Church in Wales. "Evidence and Facts Collected and Sifted", 1912
  
  ### Contributions to the DNB
  
  This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography (signing as "R. W."), and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
  
  * Howel ab Owain Gwynedd
  * Howel y Fwyall
  * William Hughes (d. 1600)
  * Griffith Jones (1683–1761)
  
  ## Works about Williams
  
  * Ben Davies, Robert Williams DYSG (1955) t. 206-9.
  * Ayron Jenkins, Yr Hybarch Robert Williams (1939) t. 8-12.
  * D. S. Jones, Er cof am yr Hyrbarch Robert Williams (1939) t. 13-14.
  * Williams, Robert, in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 by Foster, Joseph, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.
  * Obituary Archdeacon Robert Williams in The Times
  