![]() ![]() In 1894 the family moved to St Albans in Hertfordshire, where Williams lived until his marriage in 1917. The Williams family lived in 'shabby-genteel' circumstances, owing to Walter's increasing blindness and the decline of the firm by which he was employed, in Holloway. Charles Wall ), was a former milliner (hatmaker), of Islington. His mother Mary, the sister of the ecclesiologist and historian J. ![]() His father Walter was a journalist and foreign business correspondent for an importing firm, writing in French and German, who was a 'regular and valued' contributor of verse, stories and articles to many popular magazines. ![]() Most of his life was spent in London, where he was born, but in 1939 he moved to Oxford with the university press for which he worked and was buried there following his early death.Ĭharles Williams was born in London in 1886, the only son of (Richard) Walter Stansby Williams (1848–1929) and Mary (née Wall). ![]() Charles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – ) was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic. ![]()
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