[1][2][3][4][5] Williams was born in London on 12 June 1919 and educated at Sherborne School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Williams is widely regarded as the founder of the modern medical field of paediatric urology.

Deciding that the field needed to be studied more, he began collaboration for a book with Twistington Higgins, a general surgeon interested in urology.

One of his first initiatives on being appointed in 1952 to the new position of senior genito-urinary surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital was to found the Society for Paediatric Urologists.

[1] The contributions and improvements Williams made in the field of genito-urinary conditions, especially in finding new treatments for children, led to many regarding him the founder of paediatric urology clinically, academically and educationally.