Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel

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Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel (2017)

Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel CBE ( February 9, 1933 - December 30, 2019 ) was a British executive, peer and biographical author.

Career

The son of NP Williams and Muriel de Lérisson Cazenove attended Westminster School and Christ Church in Oxford , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Literae humaniores in 1955 and a Master of Arts. He later attended the London School of Economics , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1964. Between 1955 and 1957 he served as a subaltern at the headquarters of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in Winchester and in the 1st Battalion in Derna , Libya .

Williams worked for British Petroleum Co. Ltd from 1958 to 1964. From 1964 to 1966 he was personal assistant to the manager of the Guatemala department of the Bank of London and Montreal and from 1966 to 1970 he was manager of mergers and acquisitions of Eurofinance SA Paris . He worked for Baring Bros & Co. Ltd from 1970 to 1977, as managing director from 1971. From 1977 to 1979 he was chairman of the pricing committee and from 1985 to 1992 director of Mirror Group Newspapers plc. Between 1979 and 1982 he was managing director of Henry Ansbacher & Co. Ltd and between 1982 and 1985 of Henry Ansbacher Holdings .

From 1988 to 1990 Williams was chairman of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and from 1989 to 1999 busby trustee of Westminster School. He served as President of the Campaign to Protect Rural Wales (CPRW) from 1989 to 1995. From or after 1995 he was Vice President and President of the Radnor division. In 1980 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

On May 22, 1985 he was raised to Life Peer as Baron Williams of Elvel , of Llansantffraed in Elvel in the County of Powys . He was sitting in the House of Lords for the Labor Party .

He played 87 first-class games in cricket , 40 of them for Essex County Cricket Club .

Williams was also the author of several biographies.

family

Since 1975 he was married to Jane Gillian Portal. He had a stepson, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury , Justin Welby .

Works (selection)

  • The Last Great Frenchman: a life of General de Gaulle (1993)
  • Bradman: an Australian Hero (1996)
  • Adenauer: the Father of the New Germany (2000)
  • Pétain (2005)

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personal data
SURNAME Williams, Charles, Baron Williams of Elvel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Charles Cuthbert Powell, Baron Williams of Elvel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British manager, peer and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1933
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2019