[5] Aeneas's father, John Francon Williams, born in 1854 in the village of Llanllechid in Caernarvonshire, North Wales, was a published writer, newspaper editor, geographer, inventor, historian and cartographer.

By 1901, the Williams family was living at Queens Grove Road in the affluent area of Chingford, Essex, where, on the 1901 England and Wales Census, Aeneas aged 15, is recorded as being an artist and painter.

[15] The house was named after Sir Capel Charles Wolseley, 9th Baronet, who was the secretary of the fund-raising delegation London Committee–a committee formed to solicit funds for Indian missions.

[16] Aeneas quickly settled into his life at St. Andrew's as a missionary and took on several other roles, including financial adviser to Dr. John Anderson Graham, and as a fundraiser for the children's home.

[21] Clara (a true Orcadian)[22][23] was born on 24 July 1887 in Kirkwall[24] on the Orkney Islands and was also a Church of Scotland missionary and taught French[10] at St. Andrew's Colonial school.

At the beginning of January 1921, Aeneas, his wife, and their two young offspring (aged 4) sailed from Calcutta on board the (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Line) SS Soudan[33] en route to the UK.

During the trip, Aeneas undertook a short fundraising tour in aid of St Andrew's Colonial Home in Kalimpong, during which he gave lantern shows with spoken commentary.

The photographic slides were projected upon a large screen and depicted life at St Andrew's Colonial Home, views of the Eastern Himalayas, and his experience as a missionary in India.

One of Williams’ presentations was given at a variety concert at Elie in Fife held on 23 September at which Major-General Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff introduced the acts.

Making up the rest of the team was a large group of Tibetan and Nepalese Sherpa's and porters who tendered the pace of donkey's laden with food and equipment.

There was much excitement among the staff and children at St Andrew's, with football, golf, and evening group sing-alongs taking place in the main school hall, with members of the expedition partaking in the activities.

General Bruce had been charged by Sir Robert Baden-Powell to deliver a letter of praise to the Scout troupe at the Homes, which Aeneas enthusiastically ran.

You can picture the scene with the whole Everest party on the School Hall Platform in front of the Roll of Honour, and you can understand the electric conditions for those who daily gaze Kangchenjunga.

Mr. Williams (Aeneas) promptly seized the manuscript to hang it up in the Pickford Scout Den beside your drawing of Jack Cornwell and your own signed photograph!’ [38] The following day, the expedition party split in two, with one group staying behind to await delivery of the oxygen canisters, and the other, with General Bruce and the Sherpa's leaving for base camp.

[40] The film shows the team arriving on a steam train at Kalimpong Road Station and at St. Andrew's Colonial Home, although footage taken inside the school compound is not included in the movie.

[45] The Scotsman found it, ‘a readable, instructive, and usefully illustrated manual.’[46] Williams wrote the book in Kalimpong during his time working at St Andrew's Colonial Home.

[48][49] On 5 February 1924, Aeneas and Clara, with their two young children (aged seven), sailed from Calcutta aboard SS Hosang (Indo-China Steam Navigation Company) to Shanghai, China.

[56] In December 1926, Aeneas received a worrying letter from the Church of Scotland offices in Edinburgh talking of anxious happenings in Hankou and the possibility of a General Strike in China.

[57] In the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain intimated that the British Government was talking of taking immediate steps to protect U.K. nationals stationed in China.

[60] Also, in March 1927, due to growing civil unrest in Yichang and localised uprisings in the surrounding province, Aeneas was advised by the British Consulate to leave China for his own safety.

In late April 1927, Aeneas sailed from the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, on board the SS Montclare (Canadian Pacific Line).

[64] It was with high regard that Aeneas had been invited to represent the now thriving St. Andrew's Colonial School and Homes in Kalimpong upon which honors from the Indian and British Governments’ had since poured.

[65] The house in Old Church Lane had a large rear garden and was close enough to Edinburgh for the children to attend school there, yet surrounded by the bracing fresh air of the open countryside.

Williams’ address brought out in a wonderful way the romance of the mission fields, and the speaker dealt in a most interesting manner with his own particular work among the depressed races in the Eastern Duars.’[75] In 1934, Aeneas and Clara's son Alfred aged eighteen, enrolled at the University of Edinburgh, where he studied medicine for the next six years.

[76] In the summer of 1937, Aeneas and Clara, accompanied by their two offspring, Alfred (a medical student) and Beatrice (a nurse), sailed from Dooars, India, to America where they arrived in New York City on 16 August 1937 aboard SS Caledonia II.

There are conductors pale who stand tiptoe before the band and all the instrumentalists are dumb until the white-hot baton and the thumb of the magician makes cryptic potion And with the motion there comes the strange effusion of dreamy cadence like incense smoke that winds and sways all ways Aeneas would find small nuggets of inspiration obscured in the noise of life.

You lay so limp and weightless in my hand that I could scarce believe you were of earth and not an airy being having birth in some aloof, imponderable land I knew the fervour of your evening song and felt the rapture of your vibrances the lilting pleasure of new cadences that tripped the leafy forest trees along On 13 May 1942, Aeneas and Clara's daughter Beatrice married Dr. Stephen Ian Pugh of Builth Wells, Breconshire, Wales.

[85] In 1945, Aeneas and Clara spent a summer vacation at Kodaikanal, a resort in the Cardamom Hills (Yela Mala), a mountain range in South India, where their son Alfred joined them.

After the inauguration of Indian Independence on 15 August 1947, Aeneas wrote 'Report 1947, The Work of the Church of Scotland Mission in Bengal During a Momentous Year', documenting what he saw and encountered in India during and after the handover.

Original correspondence from Aeneas to MacMillan held at The Museum of English Rural Life and Special Collections at the University of Reading mentions two new manuscripts he had written relating to his travels that he'd submitted to the publishing house.