[3] and in 1916–1918 as superintendent in the Warragul circuit, alternating with the home missionary at Neerim South.
In 1928 he succeeded H. G. Secomb as superintendent of the Shepparton circuit and chairman of the Goulburn Valley District Synod.
[8] He served as chairman of the Melbourne South Methodist district for a record 16 years.
[9] He was elected president of the Methodist Conference of Victoria in 1949 He died in Epworth Hospital on 12 August 1956 Williams married Helen Sarah Baud (1885–1967) on 4 April 1914.
Robert Williams, President of the Victoria and Tasmania' Conference of the Methodist Church in 1944, was a brother.