WILLIAMES, RICE PRYCE BUCKLEY (1802-1871), an official in the Board of Control, London, and principal founder of The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine;
b. 1802, eldest son of John Buckley Williames, Pennant, Berriw, Mont. (high sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1820), and Catherine, daughter and heiress of Rice Pryce, Glyncogan. He was educated at Shrewsbury school. Through the influence of Charles W. Williams Wynn (see under Wynn of Wynnstay) he was given a post in the Board of Control, London, then the government department responsible for the affairs of India; this post he held for nine years, retiring on pension. Fairly soon after going to London he became the principal founder of The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repository, a useful and interesting journal, of which he was editor for a period, and the first number of which appeared in Jan. 1829 and which continued until 1833; note that the first volume is dedicated to lord Ashley, ‘One of the Commissioners for the affairs of India.’ Williames was prominent also in connection with the volunteer movement in Montgomeryshire — cornet in 1819, lieutenant in the new corps, the Yeomanry Cavalry formed in 1831, and later becoming major. He m. 1854, Anna Frances Parslow, eldest daughter of Humphrey Rowland Jones, Garthmyl, Mont., the only child of the marriage, a daughter, predeceased her father. He d. 23 March 1871, and was buried in the parish church of Betws.
Bibliography:
- R. Williams, Mont. Worthies (2nd ed.).
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952), Aberystwyth
