John Williams Papers

Comprises manuscript essay by John Williams, Food of Plants 1842, and a biographical note on his father written by John Williams, junior, 1902.

John Williams (1801 - 1859) naturalist and physician was born in Llansanffraid, in the Conwy valley, north Wales. He was educated at Liverpool and apprenticed to his elder brother William, a physician and apothecary at Abergele. He later studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and practiced as a physician in Wales at Corwen and Wrexham. He moved to California in 1849 during the gold rush, where he intended to combine working as a physician with gold prospecting, but he was robbed and suffered ill health and returned to Wrexham in 1853. He is the author of Faunula Grustensis: being an outline of the natural contents of the parish of Llanrwst(1830).

Material is arranged in chronological order and incorporated into the General Collection of Bangor Manuscripts .

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Donated to the University of Wales, Bangor by John Williams, junior, vicar of Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire in 1902.

Description compiled by Anne Lenaghan, June 2002.

Item level word-processed list is available at the Archives Department, University of Wales, Bangor. Reference number: General Collection of Bangor Manuscripts: 200

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Also held at the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor are the Shankland Manuscripts which contain material relating to John Williams. A collection level description is available on the Archives Hub .

The University Library at Bangor holds a copy of Faunula Grustensis: being an outline of the natural contents of the parish of Llanrwst(1830), donated by the author's son in 1902.