Constituency Dates
Carmarthenshire 18 Dec. 1724 – 19 July 1745
Family and Education
b. 1681, 1st s. of Sir Rice Williams of Edwinsford by his 2nd w. Mary, da. of John Vaughan of Llanelly, Carm. educ. Eton 1698; Queens’ Camb. 1698; I. Temple 1699, called 1705. m. 19 June 1712, Mary (articles of separation 25 June 1720),1Sir F. D. Williams-Drummond, Annals of Edwinsford, 37. da. of Charles Cocks, M.P., of Worcester, s.p. suc. fa. 1694; cr. Bt. 30 July 1707.
Offices Held

Chamberlain, Brec. Glam. and Rad. 1734 – d.; ld. lt. and custos rot. Carm. 1735–40.

Address
Main residence: Edwinsford, Carm.
biography text

Williams, who won his seat on petition, voted regularly for the Walpole ministry, from which he obtained legal offices, carrying a salary of £500 each, for himself and his brother Thomas, chamberlain from 1731 of the other South Wales circuit. After Walpole’s fall he voted with the new Administration on the Hanoverians in 1742. He died 19 July 1745, aged 64.

Author
P.D.G.T.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. Sir F. D. Williams-Drummond, Annals of Edwinsford, 37.