Rowland Williams
1817–70
Theologian. Classical tutor, King’s College, Cambridge, 1843–50. Vice-principal and professor of Hebrew, St David’s Theological College, Lampeter, 1850–62. Vicar of Broad Chalke with Bower Chalke and Alvedistone, Wiltshire, 1858–70. His contribution to Essays and reviews (1860) led to his being prosecuted, together with Henry Bristow Wilson, for heterodoxy in the Court of Arches in 1861; however, the judgement against him was reversed on appeal in 1864.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
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Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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