Hartley Williams (1844 – 18 January 1927) was an Anglican priest in South Australia who ran a private school in Mount Gambier.
He resigned that cure in 1881, expecting a transfer to Melbourne[6] but was sent instead to Hobart, Tasmania, where he relieved Canon Bailey at the St. John the Baptist Church on Goulburn Street.
[7] Williams returned to South Australia shortly afterwards,[8] accepting an invitation to serve as the first incumbent of the Church of the Holy Cross in Mount Gambier.
In 1884 he founded a high school for boys[9] in Doughty Terrace, Mount Gambier, at which many of the town's future leaders were educated.
[15] His school closed in 1903 after Williams sustained injuries doing home repairs,[16] and he left Mount Gambier a few years later.
Williams was an enthusiastic sportsman: he excelled at cricket (he was an umpire in the early days of the Adelaide Oval), boxing and rowing.