Charles Morgan Williams MBE (21 April 1878 – 4 August 1970) was a mayor and Member of Parliament for Kaiapoi in Canterbury, New Zealand.
He came to New Zealand in 1902, and worked as a farm labourer in the Kaiapoi district until 1906, when he bought and leased land in the Tram Road area and grew potatoes.
On the peat land he developed an extensive drainage system to allow dairy farming and founded the Maesgwyn herd of pedigree Ayrshire cattle.
At a public meeting in 1955, Williams received a presentation from the mayor Norman Kirk, in recognition of his service to the borough and his care of 245 acres of forest reserves.
Williams was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for public services, in the 1956 Queen's Birthday Honours,[1] but for the rest of his life, he did not wear the medal as he considered it a community, and not a personal commendation.
According to Barry Gustafson, he was regarded by some observers and colleagues as somewhat eccentric, but undoubtedly intelligent and able, though in accusing Savage of favouring fellow Catholics (from 1935) he was bigoted.