Edward Ellerker Williams

Edward Ellerker Williams (22 April 1793 – 8 July 1822) was a retired army officer who became a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the final months of his life and died with him.

[1] Williams's Sporting Sketches during a Short Stay in Hindustane contains drawings and journal descriptions of places and events during a leave of absence he took in 1814.

Williams returned to England, taking with him Jane Johnson, the wife of another army officer, née Cleveland (1798–1884), who told him her husband mistreated her and that she was justified in leaving him.

[1] Williams's ashes were carried back to England by Jane, where eventually, she became the wife of another friend of Shelley, Thomas Jefferson Hogg.

[1] Whilst in Italy, Williams kept a brief journal, which has since provided another sidelight on the lives of Shelley, Byron and Edward John Trelawny.

http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/joe Notebook (28 May – 2 June 1819) recording his travels on the continent with his friends and family, manuscript in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library (call number S'ANA 0399) Journal (18 April - 2 December 1807) Holograph manuscript Log of HMS Superb in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (call number S'ANA 0153)