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WILLIAMS, CHARLES; b.; BB 1712-6; in under school list 1715.

WILLIAMS, CHARLES, eldest son of John Williams, Daventry, Northants, Serjeant-at-law, and Mary, dau. of Charles Clarke, Forebridge, near Stafford; b.; adm.; left 1811; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Jun 1811; migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge; LLB 1827; ordained; d. 1835, aged 41 (will proved PCC 4 Oct 1837). [Perhaps bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 4 May 1794 (IGI)]

WILLIAMS, CHARLES WILLIAM, eldest son of Thomas Robert Williams, Newton Nottage, Glamorgan, and Jane Frederica Butler, dau. of Charles Savery, Bristol; b. 11 Jun 1842; adm. Jan 1855; BB 3 Mar 1855; adm. solicitor Trinity 1863; practised at Newport, Monmouthshire; m. 1864 Elizabeth, dau. of John Clarke, Newport, Monmouthshire; d. 5 Sep 1873.

Williams, Charles Cuthbert Powell, Baron Williams of Elvel, son of Rev. Norman Powell Williams DD, Lady Margaret Prof. of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, and Muriel de Lerisson, d. of Arthur Philip Cazenove, stockbroker; b. 9 Feb. 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (KS); Capt. of the Sch. 1950; left July 1951; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1951, played cricket for Oxford 1953-5 (capt. 1955); BA 1955, MA; played cricket for Essex 1953-9; asst. master Eton Coll. 1955-8; BP Co. Ltd. 1958-64; contested (Lab. ) Colchester 1964; Bank of London & Montreal 1964-6; Eurofinance SA Paris 1966-70; Baring Bros & Co. 1970-7, man. dir. 1971-7; chmn. Prices Commission 1977-9; CBE 1980; Henry Ansbacher & Co., man. dir. 1980-2, chmn. 1982-5; chief exec. Henry Ansbacher Holdings Plc 1982-5; created Baron Williams of Elvel (Life Peer) 1985; dir. Pergamon Holdings Ltd. 1985-91, Mirror Group Newspapers 1985-92; dep. Leader Labour Party House of Lords 1989-92; chmn. Acad. of St Martin-in-the-Fields 1988; pres. Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales 1989-95, vice-pres. 1995-2009; PC 2013; m. 1st, 8 May 1965 Maria Cecilia Rodriguez de Leon, d. of Don Vincenzo Rodrigues Sanchez of Guatemala; 2nd, 1975 Jane Gillian, formerly wife of Gavin Bramhall Welby, and d. of Lieut. -Col. Gervas Edward Portal, Indian Army; d. 30 Dec 2019.

WILLIAMS, CADWALLADER, son of John Williams, Bangor, Caernarvonshire; b.; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1718; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1720; BA 1724; ordained; Curate, Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1725. .

WILLIAMS, ASHTON, eldest son of Thomas Williams, Nantwich, Cheshire; bapt. Nantwich, Cheshire 22 Nov 1706 (IGI); adm. (aged 15) May 1723; adm. Inner Temple 3 Jun 1726.

WILLIAMS, ARTHUR, eldest son of Simon Williams, Meilltyrne, Caernarvonshire, and Mary, dau. of Hugh Rowland, Meilltyrne; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston four years (J. E. B. Mayor & R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , i, 21); BB; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 Oct 1634, aged 18, Bishop Williams scholar 6 Nov 1634, matr. 1634; of Meillionydd, Caernarvonshire; m. Anne, dau. of Robert Owen, Ystumcegid [check county]; d. 1653.

WILLIAMS, ARTHUR CHARLES VAUGHAN, son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv); b. 8 Nov 1834; adm. 22 Oct 1846; QS 1849; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, matr. 18 May 1653, Westminster Student; BA 1857; MA 1860; ordained 1860; Vicar of Down Ampney, Gloucs., from 1868; father of Ralph Vaughan Williams OM, musical composer; m. 22 Feb 1868 Margaret Susan, second dau. of Josiah Wedgwood, Leith Hill Place, Surrey; d. 9 Feb 1875.

Williams, Anthony Hayhurst, son of Leonard John Williams, asst. gen. man. Nat. Prov. Bank, and Doris, d. of Edward Faulkner-Mayall, mill owner, of Oldham, Lancs; b. 28 July 1925; adm. Jan. 1938 (G); left Apr. 1943; RAC 1944-7, 17/21 Lancers (Lieut. ); branch man. Wiggins Teape & Alex. Price (Pakistan) Ltd., Karachi, Pakistan, 1951; m. 11 Sept. 1954 Pamela Margaret Helen, d. of Cyril James Bollins, civil engineer, of Crowborough, Sussex; d. 11 July 1972.

WILLIAMS, ---; b.; in school lists May and Oct 1803.