Career
Born in Wales to engineer John Williams and Ann Lucy, he arrived in Adelaide in 1852 and settled at Goolwa before moving to Wentworth, New South Wales, in 1863. He worked as a blacksmith and storekeepr until 1877, when he moved to Hay. He later moved to Swan Hill and Kerang in 1881 and Mildura in 1887.
He was the first president of Mildura Shire Council from 1890 to 1891.
In 1901 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for North Western Province, serving until 1903. Williams died at Kerang in 1910.
