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Williams, Glanmor
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1920-2005
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Glanmor Williams, historian, was born in Dowlais, Glamorgan, 5 May 1920. In 1945 he was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Wales, Swansea, and was Professor of History from 1957 until his retirement in 1982. Glanmor Williams was Chairman of the Ancient Monuments Board (Wales), 1986-1990.
His main field of research has been the Protestant establishment in Wales during the Reformation, and his volume The Welsh Church from Conquest to Reformation was published in 1962 and Welsh Reformation Essays in 1966. He was regarded as 'the chief authority on early modern Wales' and was the general editor of Glamorgan County History. Glanmor Williams was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy in 1986, was presented with a medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1991, and knighted in 1995. He died 24 February 2005.
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