Williams attended Porth County School, and later Ruskin College.
He moved to London and joined the Labour Party, and in 1919 was elected to Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council.
[1] He was ennobled on 24 June 1948 as Baron Williams, of Ynyshir in the County of Glamorgan.
[1] In 1947 Williams was appointed a member of the London Transport Executive.
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