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Ganwyd Griffith Williams yn Y Rhondda ond fe'i magwyd ym Mhentywyn, Sir Gaerfyrddin. Gweithiodd i'r Western Mail, ymysg nifer o gyhoeddiadau eraill, fel newyddiadurwr a beirniad celf. Er iddo ymddeol yn 1969, bu'n gyfrannwr rheolaidd i dudalennau celf papur newydd wythnosol Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nation, yn y blynyddoedd cyn ei farwolaeth. Ynghyd â'i waith fel newyddiadurwr, yr oedd hefyd yn ysgrifennu nofelau, dramâu a cherddi. Cyhoeddwyd ei nofel Sands of Speed yn 1973. Priododd ei wraig Marion Eames yn 1955. Bu farw ar 28 Mawrth 1977.

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.