Master of Arts Williams.

Background

Williams., Master of Arts was born on September 21, 1929 in Westcliff. Son of Owen Williams and Hilda Williams.

Education

Chigwell School, Essex, Balliol College, Oxford.

Career

Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford 1951-1954, New College, Oxford 1954-1959. Lecturer, University College, London 1959-1964. Professor Bedford College, London 1964-1967.

Knightsbridge Professor, of Philosophy, Cambridge 1967-1979.

Provost, King"s College, Cambridge 87. Monroe Deutsch Professor, of Philosophy, University of California since 1988.

White’s Professor, of Moral Philosophy and Fellow Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford October since 1990. Visiting appointments, University College, of Ghana 1958-1959, Princeton A.N.U. 1969, Harvard 1973, University of California, Berkeley 1986.

Director English National Opera 1968-1986.

Author and presenter What Is Truth? series, Channel 4 1988, Honorary Doctor of Letters (Dublin) 1981, Honorary Little (Aberdeen) 1987, Honorary Fellow Balliol College, Oxford 1984.

Interests

• Music.

Connections

Married 1st Shirley Catlin in 1955 (divorced in 1974), one daughter. Married 2nd Patricia Skinner, two son.

Father:

Owen Williams

Mother:

Hilda Williams

Spouse:

Patricia Skinner, two

Spouse:

Shirley Catlin