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J. Lloyd Williams (1854-1945) was a noted botanist, author and musician. He was one of the founders of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, established in 1906 to promote the collection and study of traditional Welsh folk songs, and became the first editor of the Society's Journal (see the Society's website: www.canugwerin.org.uk).

Williams, DSc, lectured in botany at the University College of North Wales, Bangor and acted as Director of Music for that College. He subsequently became Professor of Botany at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1915 until he retired in 1925. Williams and Arthur Somerville were the editors of Welsh Melodies (Boosey & Co., 1907 and 1909), a collection of genuine old Welsh music considered to be of exceptionally fine quality. Many songs in the collection had never been in print in other published song collections.

Williams presented a well-received paper to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion on [, 1908, entitled Welsh National Melodies and Folk-Songs.

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