833 Benjamin Williams

Constituency : Carmarthen 1878-82

Benjamin  took  over  at  Carmarthen  after  the  resignation  of  absentee  MP  Emile  Cowell-Stepney.He  was  unopposed.

Benjamin  was  educated  at  Glasgow  University. He  became  a  barrister  in  1859  and  was  Recorder  of  Carmartthen  from  1872  until  his  election. He  sought  nomination at  Merthyr  in  1868  and  cried  foul  when  his  public  meeting  was  hi-jacked  by  supporters  of  the  sitting  MP  Richard  Fothergill.

In  1881  Benjamin  made  his  one  parliamentary  speech  in  supporting  a  resolution  to  reform  the  law  of  entail.

Benjamin  resigned  his  seat  in  1882  to  become  a  County  Court  judge.

He  died  in  1890  aged  57.