Joshua Williams (1813–1881) was an English barrister, with a reputation made as a legal author in the field of property law.
He was the fifth son and seventh child of Thomas Williams of Cote, Aston, Oxfordshire, born on 23 May 1813.
He was made a Queen's Counsel on 30 March 1865, and during Easter term, on 20 April following, was elected a bencher of Lincoln's Inn.
[1] In 1875 Williams was appointed professor of the law of real and personal property to the Inns of Court by the council of legal education, and was annually re-elected to this office until his resignation in 1880.
[1] Williams's lectures on the Seisin of the Freehold, the Law of Settlements, and the Rights of Common were published in 1878–1880.