Rheinallt Nantlais Williams

Rheinallt Nantlais Williams MBE (1911–1993) was a Welsh professor of the philosophy of religion and principal of the Presbyterian United Theological College, Aberystwyth in Wales from 1979 to 1980.

[1] Rheinallt Williams was born in Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, one of seven children (two of whom died in infancy) of Nantlais Williams, a Welsh poet and a Presbyterian Christian leader during the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival and his wife Alice Maud Jones, a relative of J. T. Job.

He was elected Lewis Gibson Scholar at Westminster College, Cambridge, where he studied theology for three years.

On leaving Cambridge he became the minister at the Tabernacle in Whitchurch in Cardiff from 1939 to 1949, excluding a period of war service.

[3] In September 1943 Captain Williams was appointed MBE (Military Division) for services during the North African Campaign.