Augustine Podmore Williams (22 May 1852 – 17 April 1916) was an English mariner who gained notoriety in the 1880s as the result of a scandal on the high seas.
In July 1880, the 28-year-old Williams was serving as chief mate aboard the Jeddah, a boat owned by the Singaporean merchant Syed Mohamed Alsagoff.
The deserting officers had been rescued by another vessel (the Scindia), and Captain Clark had reported the Jeddah lost in the high seas.
He failed to recover from this injury, and died of complications a month later, on 17 April 1916, at his residence at Shamrock, 32 Barker Road, and was interred at the Bidadari Cemetery in northeast Singapore.
A century later, the author Gavin Young tracked down the few remaining traces of Williams in Singapore, including his long-forgotten grave in Bidadari, in the course of researching In Search of Conrad, a book of travel and literary detection.
When the dead of Bidadari Cemetery were exhumed in the early 2000s in order to make way for redevelopment plans, Williams's granddaughter, Queenie, a daughter of his youngest son, Cuthbert, reclaimed his remains.