Hodder-Williams, Ralph William, son of John Thomas Williams, of Bromley, Kent, by Mary Frances, daughter of Matthew Henry Hodder, of Bromley, Kent; b. Jan. 31, 1890; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (G); exhibitioner 1904; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1908, matric. Michaelmas 1908; Fell Exhibitioner 1910; Dukes Prize 1910; B.A. 1911; M.A. 1915; A. M. Columbia Univ., New York, U. S. A., 1919; Lecturer in Mod. Hist., Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 1911-7, Assoc. Prof. Mod. Hist. 1919-23; enlisted in 2nd Univ. Co. Princess Patricia's Light Infantry June 20, 1915, and became Lieut.; served in France and Belgium until wounded and invalided Sept. 15, 1916; M.C. Nov. 14, 1916; chairman of Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., publishers, 1923; Lieut.-Col. 54th Kent Batt., Home Guard, 1943-5; president of the Publishers' Association 1953; author of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry 1914-8; m. Oct. 6, 1917, Marjorie French, daughter of Arthur James Glazebrook, of Toronto; d. July 11, 1961.