Background
He was the born in Dowlais, Glamorganshire, the second son of Edward Williams, Civil Engineering, Justice of the Peace, ironmaster, of Cleveland Lodge, Middlesbrough. He was the great-grandson of Iolo Morgannwg, founder of the Gorsedd.
He was the born in Dowlais, Glamorganshire, the second son of Edward Williams, Civil Engineering, Justice of the Peace, ironmaster, of Cleveland Lodge, Middlesbrough. He was the great-grandson of Iolo Morgannwg, founder of the Gorsedd.
He was educated privately before attending Street John's College, Cambridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Tripos in 1880 and a Master of Arts in 1883.
He was Called to Bar, Inner Temple in 1884. He was one of the acting partners at Linthorpe Ironworks, in Middlesbrough from 1886-1890. He joined the Liberal Party.
He was firstly the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the safe Conservative Medway Division of Kent at the 1906 General Election.
He was one of the successful Liberal candidates for the dual member Plymouth Division of Devon at the January 1910 General Election. He was defeated at the Plymouth in the December 1910 General Election.
He was the successful Liberal candidate for the North West Durham Division at the North West Durham by-election, 1914. In September 1915, Williams, along with Lord Bryce, attempted to publicize the Armenian genocide.
In a public letter published in The New York Times, Bryce wrote that he agreed with Williams that "the civilized world.
This letter estimated that 250,000 Armenians had escaped from the Ottoman Empire, while "perhaps 500,00 have been slaughtered or deported". A series of speeches in Parliament by Williams, Lord Robert Cecil, and T. P. O"Connor about the Armenian genocide were later published as a pamphlet entitled The Armenian Question. He served as a Justice of the peace in Surrey.
He was Director of the First Garden City Limited.
He was Chairman of the executive committee of the Land Nationalisation Society. He was Chairman of the Executive of the International Company-operative Alliance.
He was a Director of the Welsh National House Trust Limited.
He was the successful Liberal candidate for the Consett Division of Durham at the 1918 General Election. denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government. He was Joint Honorary Secretary of the Labour Company-partnership Association.
He was Chairman of the British Armenia Committee.
He was Treasurer of the Proportional Representation Society. He was Chairman of the House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts, from 1921-1922. At the next General Election he was finally defeated.
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He was a Member of the Executive of the League of Nations Union.
Spouse 1888, Helen Elizabeth,daughter of John Pattinson, Justice of the Peace, of Shipcote House, Gateshead.