George Avery Hatch, into a clerical family with a Welsh background at The Ham, Glamorgan.
[7] He was elected MP for the county constituency of Monmouthshire in 1831, as a Whig, at the time of the Great Reform Bill, after Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet as one of the sitting MPs had voted for a wrecking amendment.
[9] He was in fact one of the small group of reformist pushing ministers to go further than the Reform Act 1832 that resulted.
[11] He spoke against a private enclosure bill, for St Harmon, but it received a second reading.
[12] During his career Addams Williams ensured that both local and national newspapers were informed when they omitted or incorrectly inserted him in their published division lists.