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Darwin Correspondence Project

Lewis Duncan Williams

1800/1–74

Army officer. Cornet, 1820. Entered the Second Regiment of Life Guards, 1823; colonel, 1854; unattached on half-pay, 1857–60; major-general, 1860; lieutenant-general, 1868. Colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoons, 1868–74.

Sources

Hart’s army list

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Hart’s army list: The new annual army list … with an index. Compiled by H. G. Hart. London: John Murray. 1840–1900.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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