David Williams (British legal scholar)
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| Born | 22 October 1930 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge: on a part-time basis from 1989 to 1992, and then as the first full-time vice-chancellor from 1992 to 1996.
Early life and education
Williams was educated at
Academic career
He was a
president of Wolfson College, Cambridge
1980–1992.
In 1989 he was appointed the first full-time vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge and was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 1991 to 1994.[4] In 2007 he was appointed as the chancellor of Swansea University.[5]
Williams had been awarded honorary degrees by a dozen institutions, including an honorary
LLD from the University of Cambridge and a Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Western Ontario
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Williams died from cancer on 6 September 2009 at the age of 78.[6][7]
In 2016, the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law named its building[8] and a Chair in Public Law[9] after him.
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/102379. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ "College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Villanova University" (PDF).
- ^ "Past Council Members". Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ^ Wolfson College News » Professor Sir David Williams inaugurated as Chancellor of Swansea University
- ^ "Death of Professor Sir David Williams - Faculty of Law". Archived from the original on 10 September 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
- ^ "Professor Sir David Williams: legal scholar". The Times. 22 September 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ "Naming of the Law Faculty building | Faculty of Law". www.law.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- ^ "Gift in honour of Sir David Williams | Faculty of Law". www.law.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
External links
- Professor David Williams - Daily Telegraph obituary
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