Serie 90 - James William Williams correspondence

Fourth Bishop of Quebec.

James William Williams was born in Hants, England in 1825. He obtained a B.A. from Oxford University in 1851, and was ordained deacon in 1852. He served as curate first in High Wycombe, Bucks, and then in Huish Champflower, Somerset, and married Ann Maria Waldren in 1854. He became Assistant Master at Leamington College, Leamington that same year, and was ordained priest in 1855, staying in Leamington until 1857. He received an M.A. from Oxford in 1855 as well. From 1857 to 1863, he was Professor of Belles Lettres at the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec, and in 1863, he was consecrated Bishop of Quebec. He received an honourary D.D. from the University of Bishop's College. He passed away in 1892.