Williams was member of a Dorset family who had had a business career in London, where at age 14 he was apprenticed as a cabinet maker, branching out to fitting out East India Company ship's cabins, then graduating to ship building.
He was also senior partner in a London bank and became a director of the East India Company.
[1] He was MP for Dorchester, which he had previously contested unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in 1806, from 1807 to 1812.
[1] He died in January 1814 aged 78, leaving a fortune of half-a-million pounds.
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