Williams was born on 4 May 1877 at
Holyhead,
Anglesey, north Wales. He was educated in Holyhead and in
Beaumaris before moving to
Oswestry where he was taught by
Owen Owen. He obtained a degree in Greek and Latin from
University College, Aberystwyth in 1898, then studied
classics and theology at
Jesus College, Oxford. He was appointed as the pastor of the Calvinistic Methodist church in Clifton Street,
Cardiff in 1903 and was ordained in the following year. In 1905, he became professor of
Church History at
Trefeca theological college, and became professor of the New Testament in 1906 when the college moved to the
United Theological College in Aberystwyth. During the First World War, he was a chaplain with the
Royal Welch Fusiliers from 1916 to 1918, seeing action in Egypt and Palestine. He had a high reputation as a chaplain, preacher (in both Welsh and in English) and teacher. He wrote commentaries on
Galatians and
2 Corinthians, and helped prepare revised editions in Welsh of Galatians and
James. He left Aberystwyth in 1922 to teach at the
Bala College, refusing a promise of the Principalship in Aberystwyth. He died in London on 12 July 1927 after a long illness. ==References==