Cecil Williams was born in St Michael Parish, Barbados, in a family of 10 children.
[1] He was expected to be prominent among the West Indies team that toured England in 1950,[4] but the younger spinners Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine were so successful in the Tests, taking 59 wickets between them, that Williams was unable to force his way into the Test team.
[5] He achieved his best first-class bowling figures in the match against MCC at Lord's, when he took 7 for 55 in the second innings.
[1] After Williams retired from the game, he served on the board of management of the Barbados Cricket Association.
[3] In 1954, Williams joined the Barbados civil service, rising to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education by 1958.