Education
He was educated at a private school, and afterwards at London University.
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Joshua Williams
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At the age of 19 he was admitted a student of Lincoln"s Inn on 31 January 1833. After practising for two or three years under the bar as a certificated conveyancer, he was called to the bar on 4 May 1838. The publication of his books brought Williams an extensive practice as a conveyancer and real property lawyer, and in March 1862 he was appointed by Lord Westbury, the Lord Chancellor, one of the four conveyancing counsel to the court of chancery.
His health suffered from the strain of increasing work.
He was made a Queen"s Counsel on 30 March 1865, and during Easter term, on 20 April following, was elected a bencher of Lincoln"s Inn. As a Queen's Counsel he became a series of cases relating to the establishment of rights of common.
lieutenant included most of the cases in which there was an attempt by lords of manors to wrest from commoners the enjoyment of their rights. In 1875 Williams was appointed professor of the law of real and personal property to the Inns of Court by the council of legal education, and was annually re-elected to this office until his resignation in 1880.
He died at his residence, 49 Queensborough Terrace, London, on 25 October 1881.
Williams married four times.
