Francis Williams (1830 – 21 July 1895) was headmaster of St Peter's College, Adelaide, South Australia.
At the end of 1881, after allegations of Ritualism and subsequent divisions in the College Council, W. Bedell Stanford, who had been appointed Head Master by Bishop Short in 1879, resigned.
[2] Williams was persuaded to postpone his planned holiday to England, and was made acting Head, and in 1882 was formally appointed to the position.
In April 1886 Williams and a College man-servant suffered from a severe attack of typhoid fever, but no student or other staff member was affected.
[1] He collapsed and died aboard a tramcar while returning to his home "Woodspring" in Unley Park from St Peter's Cathedral, where he had been acting as chaplain at the morning church service.