632 Charles Watkin Williams

Constituency : Denbigh Boroughs 1868-80  , Caernarvonshire 1880

Charles  took  Denbigh  Boroughs  from  the  Tories.

Charles  was  a  rector's  son. He  was  educated  at  Ruthin  Grammar  School  then  studied  medicine  at  University  College  Hospital. After  a  short  time  there  as  a  house  surgeon  he  decided  to  switch  to  the  law  instead  and  went  to  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister. His  specialism  was  financial  and  mercantile  cases. In  1854  he  published  a  pamphlet  arguing  against  church  rates.

Charles  put  down  a  motion  for  the  disestablishment  of  the  Welsh  church  despite  being  a  member  of  it  himself. In  1875  he  sat  on  the  committee  for  foreign  loans. He  switched  seats  in  1880. He  was  offered  the  post  of  judge  advocate-general  by  Gladstone  but  declined  it.  A  few  months  later  he  was  appointed  a  judge.

Charles  died  of  a  heart  attack  in  1884  aged  55  while  on  the  job  in  a  Nottingham  brothel.