Sir Thomas Williams OBE (1893 – 25 February 1967)[1] was the last Speaker of the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia.
[2] Born in 1893, Williams was educated at Normanton Grammar School in Yorkshire between 1905 and 1911,[3] before attending the University of Leeds.
[1] In 1935 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Education by the University of the Witwatersrand, a position he held until 1949.
The following year he was made the Speaker after the retirement of Thomas Spurgeon Page.
Following independence on 24 October 1964, he resigned as Speaker on 14 December,[1] and was succeeded by Wesley Nyirenda.