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WILLIAMS, SAMUEL CHARLES EVAN, only son of John Williams (adm. 1811, qv); b. 29 May 1842; adm. Jan 1855 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1857; left 1859; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 May 1861; BA 1864; MA 1877; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Nov 1866; JP Radnorshire, High Sheriff 1880; MP (Liberal) Radnor District 1880-4; Vice-Chairman, Radnor County Council; one of founders of National Liberal Club 1882; Roman Catholic convert 1894; m. 26 Feb 1867 Mary Caroline, dau. of Rev. Henry William Robinson Luttman-Johnson (formerly Michell), West Dean, Sussex; d. 2 Mar 1926.

WILLIAMS, ROWLAND, son of Col. Thomas Williams, member of Assembly, Antigua, West Indies, and Mary, dau. of Edward Byam, Antigua, physician; bapt. 18 Jul 1707; adm. Oct 1721; in under school lists 1723; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 May 1726; d. in New York, North America 1738.

WILLIAMS, SIR ROLAND LOMAX BOWDLER VAUGHAN, son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv); b. 31 Dec 1837; adm. 27 Jan 1851; QS 1852; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1856, matr. 15 May 1856, Westminster Student 1856-65; BA 1860; MA 1863; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Jan 1861, called to bar 17 Nov 1864, Bencher 1886, Treasurer 1912; South-Eastern Circuit; QC 1889; Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division, High Court 13 Feb 1890 – Nov 1897, Lord Justice of Appeal 2 Nov 1897 – 1914, retd.; knighted 30 Jun 1890; Privy Counsellor 26 Nov 1897; Chairman, Royal Commission on Disestablishment of Welsh Church 1906; author, The Law and Practice of Bankruptcy, 1870 (many subsequent editions); edited several editions of his father’s Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators; Vice-President, Elizabethan Club 1905-12, President 1912-5; Busby Trustee 20 May 1890; m. 28 Sep 1865 Laura Susanna, youngest dau. of Edmund Lomax, Netley, Surrey; d. 8 Dec 1916. DNB.

Williams, Roderick John Hugh, son of Richard Myrddin Williams, East India merchant, and Katherine Isabel, d. of Robert Paterson of Chiswick; b. 14 Mar. 1929; adm. Sept. 1942 (KS); left July 1947; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1951, MA 1954; asst. master and lay clerk Eton Coll. Choir Sch. 1953-65; ARCM 1965; asst. master, later head master Canterbury Cathedral Choir Sch. 1965-9; asst. master Arnold House Sch. London 1970; Open Univ., BA 1978; m. 19 Dec. 1970 Susan Caroline, d. of Victor William Smith CBE, Indian Police, of Folkestone, Kent; d. 23 June 2025.

WILLIAMS, ROBERT; b.; adm. 8 Jul 1778.

WILLIAMS, SIR ROBERT, BART., eldest son of Sir Hugh Williams, Bart., MP, and Emma, widow of James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley (I) (qv), and only dau. of Thomas Rowlands, Nant, Caernarvonshire; b. 20 Jul 1764; adm. 12 Sep 1774; went to Harrow Sch.; Grand Tour (Italy) 1786; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 Jun 1782; Lieut. and Capt., 30 Dec 1789; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 4 Oct 1794; retd. 12 Jun 1795; served in France 1793; MP Caernarvonshire 1790-1826, Beaumaris from 1826; succ. father as 9th baronet 19 Aug 1794; m. 11 Jun 1799 Anne, second dau. of Rev. Edward Hughes, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire; d. at Nice 1 Dec 1830.

WILLIAMS, ROBERT GRIFFITH, son of Sir Robert Williams, Bart. (qv); b. 27 Jun 1809; adm. 1 Oct 1821 (Stelfox's); Ensign, 21st Foot 3 Oct 1826; Lieut., 6 Sep 1831; Capt., 24 Apr 1835; 24th Foot 11 Dec 1835; retd. 1841; m. 1833 Mary Anne, second dau. of Piers Geale, Dublin, Ireland; d. 13 Apr 1865.

WILLIAMS, RICHARD; b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1739/40 (Watts'); left 1740.

WILLIAMS, RICHARD, son of Sir John Williams, Kt, MP, Tendring Hall, Stoke juxta Nayland, Suffolk, director South Sea Co., Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, and Hon. Mary Onslow, dau. of Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow; bapt. St. Dunstan in the East, London 5 Jul 1710 (IGI); adm. (aged 7) Jun 1718; in under school list 1722; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 4 Aug 1729, matr. 1729/30; MA 1733; adm. Middle Temple 23 Jan 1730/1; m. 22 Dec 1738 Sarah Bishop, Manningtree, Essex; d. 1750.