WILLIAMS, ARTHUR WYNN (1819 - 1886), physician and antiquary

a native of Caernarvonshire. He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843, became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1844, and obtained the degree of M.A. at S. Andrews University in 1847. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and was for a period physician to the Caernarvonshire and Anglesey infirmary. After practising for some years at Caernarvon, he removed to London. He was the author of Cancer of the Uterus and other Parts (London, 1868), and was a frequent contributor to the medical journals. His most valuable contribution to medicine was his advocacy of the use of iodine as an antiseptic and of bromine as a cure for cancer. He also took a keen interest in Welsh literature and Celtic archaeology. He wrote Descriptions of British and Druidical Remains in the neighbourhood of Caernarvon, and King Arthur's Well, Llanddeiniolen, near Caernarvon - a chalybeate spring, with directions for its use; a Welsh translation of the latter was published also. He died 15 November 1886, aged 67 years, and was buried in Paddington cemetery on 19 November

Author

• Hywel David Emanuel, (1921 - 1970)

Sources

• T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)
• Bye-Gones, relating to Wales and the Border Counties, 1886, 186
• The Medical Directory, 1886, 289-90 (gives London addresses and detailed survey of career)
• Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh Department, Cardiff Free Libraries (1898)
• H. Blackwell, NLW MS 9276A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography (232)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20746756

Published date: 1959

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