Capel Curig grave Henry Williams
Rev Henry Williams (d.1902)
Henry Williams was born at Cefn Ysgubell, Capel Curig, on 21 February 1837. His parents were Owen Williams, a farmer, and Anne Davies. Henry, who had several sibilings, was christened in St Julitta’s Church on 5 March 1837. Cefn Ysgubell was a farm on the hill north of what’s now the Tŷn-y-Coed Inn.
After graduating at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Henry became a teacher. From 1865 to 1889 he was second master of Wolverhampton 
Grammar School, where the pupils affectionately called him “Daddy Williams”. He was headmaster there from 1890 to 1895. The school was founded in 1512 and has been open to girls as well as boys since the 1980s.
Henry (pictured right, with thanks to Wolverhampton Grammar School library) taught mathematics at the school. One of his pupils was Augustus Edward Hough Love, who went on to become one of the foremost mathematicians and geophysicists of his generation. He discovered the Love wave, a significant form of seismic wave on the Earth’s surface.
Henry was also a Church of England clergyman. In 1881 he was living at 74 Waterloo Road North, Wolverhampton, with his wife Ellen, who was born in Caernarfon on 3 September 1842. The couple liked to employ women from Caernarfonshire as their domestic servants.
Henry died in Cambridge on 31 October 1902. Ellen died in Wolverhampton on 6 December 1893 and is also commemorated on this tombstone.