WILLIAMS, ARTHUR LLEWELLYN: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Nebraska; b. at Owen Sound, Ont., Jan. 30, 1856. He received a highschool education, and in 1888 was graduated from the Western Theological Seminary, Chicago. He was ordered deacon in the same year and priested in 1889. After being a missionary in White River Valley, Col., in 1888-89, he became rector of St. Paul's, Denver, Col., in 1891, and was rector of Christ Church, Woodlawn Park, Chicago, 1892-1899. In 1899 he was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Nebraska., becoming bishop in 1908.

WILLIAMS, CHANNING MOORE: Protestant Episcopal missionary bishop of Yeddo, Japan (retired); b. at Richmond, Va., July 18, 1829; d. at Richmond, Va., Dec. 2, 1910. He was educated at William and Mary College (A.B., 1853) and at the Theological Seminary of Virginia (graduated 1855). He was ordered deacon in 1853 and priested in 1857, in which year he was appointed missionary in China, where he served until 1866. In the latter year he was consecrated missionary bishop of Yeddo, which bishopric he held until 1889, when.he retired. He continued, however, his missionary labors under his successor.

Bibliography: W. S. Perry, The Episcopate in America, p. 171, New York, 1895.

WILLIAMS, CHARLES DAVID: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Michigan; b. at Bellevue, 0., July 30, 1860. He was educated at Kenyon College, Gambier, 0. (A.B., 1880), and Bexly Hall, the theological seminary of the same institution (graduated 1883). He was a tutor in Kenyon College (1881-1884), and also curate of Trinity, Columbus, 0. (1883-84); rector of the Church of the Resurrection, Fernbank, 0., and of the Church of the Atonement, Riverside, Cincinnati (1884-89), and of St. Paul's, Steubenville, 0. (1889-93); dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland; 0. (1893-1906); and in 1906 was consecrated bishop of Michigan. He was president of the Cleveland Public Library Board in 1902-06, and of Hiram House (a social settlement), Cleveland, in 1894. In theology he is a Broad-churchman. He has written A Valid Christianity for To-Day (New Orleans, 1905, new ed., 1909).

WILLIAMS, DANIEL: English Presbyterian; b. in Wales, at (or near) Wrexham (25 m. s. of Liverpool), about 1643; d. at Hoxton Jan. 26, 1716. He began to preach 1663; became chaplain to the Countess of Meath, 1664; preached to an independent congregation at Drogheda, 1664-67; was pastor of Wood Street congregation, Dublin, 1667-87; of Hand Alley, Bishopsgate, London, 1688 till his death. He held the Pinners' Hall lectureship, 1691-1694. He acquired a large estate, a great part of

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which he devoted to charitable uses. By will he founded the Red Cross Street Library, originally embracing his own library and that of William Bates. He was the author of Gospel Truth Stated and Vindicated (2d ed., London, 1692); Man Made Righteous by Christ's Obedience . . . Sermons (1694); The Ministerial Office. 3 parts (1708); The Vanity of Childhood and Youth . . . Sermons (3rd ed., 1729); Select Sermons and Tracts (2 vols., 1832); and there appeared, with an account of his life, his Practical Discourses (5 vols., 1738-50).

Bibliography: The funeral sermon by John Evans was printed London, 1716. Besides the Life prefixed to the Practical Discourses, ut sup., consult: True Copy of the Last Will and Testament ofDaniel Williams, London, 1717; reprint with additions, 1804; D. Defoe, Memoirs.of the Life of . . . Daniel Williams, ib. 1718; Papers Relating to Daniel Williams, ib. 1816; DNB, 1xi. 385-388.