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WILLIAMS, GEORGE JAMES, fourth son of William Peere Williams MP, Gray’s Inn, London, barrister, Chancery Reporter, and Anne, second dau. of Sir George Hutchins, Kt, Greville Street, Holborn, King’s Serjeant; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1727; Min. Can. 1732; KS 1733; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1737, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jun 1737; adm. Inner Temple 13 Nov 1739; Inspector-Gen., Inland Excise Duties 1751 (still 1769, not 1780); Deputy Cofferer, Royal Household Nov 1761 – Jul 1765; Joint Receiver of Revenues, Virginia 1 Sep 1772 (still 1780); Receiver-Gen., Excise 8 Nov 1774-81; Paymaster to Forces, Nova Scotia (occurs 1780); FSA 15 Nov 1781; known as “Gilly” Williams; an intimate friend of George Selwyn, Richard Edgcumbe and Horace Walpole; m. 13 Jun 1751 Diana, illegitimate dau. of Hon. Peregrine Bertie, and step-daughter of William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry (Notes and Queries clxxiii, 206); d. 28 Nov 1805. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.