Alice Helena Alexandra Williams, also known as Alys Meirion, CBE (12 March 1863 – 15 August 1957), was a Welsh bard, painter, humanitarian, and voluntary welfare worker.
In 1900 her brother, Sir Arthur Osmond Williams, succeeded their father as MP and he went on to support women's suffrage.
[1] She joined the Lyceum, a newly founded social club for women, in London in 1905 and went on to develop branches in Berlin that year and, in 1907, in Paris, her main home until the First World War.
[1] In Paris, several years later, she met Fanny Mowbray Laming, a musician and public speaker, who became her life companion.
She was moved to the executive committee and the following year[2] the NFWI published its first magazine titled ''Home and Country'' and Williams was its first editor.