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{{Short description|Welsh barrister and legal scholar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific_prefix=
|name= Sir David Williams
|honorific_suffix= {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|QC|DL}}
|birth_date= {{birth date|1930|10|22|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Carmarthen]], [[Carmarthenshire]], Wales
|death_date= {{death date and age|2009|9|6|1930|10|22|df=y}}
|office= [[List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge|Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge]]
|term= 1989 to 1996
|predecessor= [[Michael McCrum]]
|successor= [[Alec Broers]]
|chancellor= [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|The Duke of Edinburgh]]
|alma_mater= [[Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen]] <br /> [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]
}}
'''Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|QC|DL}} (22 October 1930 – 6 September 2009) was a Welsh [[barrister]] and legal scholar. He was president of [[Wolfson College, Cambridge]] from 1980 to 1992. He was also [[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 [[Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen]]. From 1949 to 1950, he undertook [[national service]] with the [[Royal Air Force]]. In 1950, he [[matriculated]] into [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] to study history and law. He graduated from the [[University of Cambridge]] with a [[first class honours|first class]] [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA) degree in 1954.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=102379|title=Williams, Sir David Glyndwr Tudor (1930–2009), legal scholar and university administrator |first=David |last=Feldman|year=2013}}</ref><ref name="WWW">{{cite web |title=Williams, Sir David (Glyndwr Tudor) |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-39939 |website=[[Who Was Who]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=28 March 2019 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U39939 |date=1 December 2016|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref>

==Academic career==
He was a [[Harkness Fellow]] at [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] and [[Harvard]] between 1956 and 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/assets/documents/academics/undergraduate/uga/nafa/SirDavidWilliams.pdf|title=College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Villanova University}}</ref> He moved to [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]], from [[Keble College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in 1967 and was subsequently promoted to [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in public law 1976–1980, before being appointed [[Rouse Ball Professor of English Law]] 1983–1992 and elected [[Master (college)|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nuffieldbioethics.org/about/council-members/council-members|title=Past Council Members|publisher=Nuffield Council on Bioethics|access-date=21 April 2017|archive-date=22 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422034004/http://nuffieldbioethics.org/about/council-members/council-members|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2007 he was appointed as the chancellor of [[Swansea University]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/news/2007/09/20/professor-sir-david-williams-inaugurated-as-chancellor-of-swansea-university |title=Wolfson College News » Professor Sir David Williams inaugurated as Chancellor of Swansea University |access-date=24 June 2008 |archive-date=24 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024134224/http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/news/2007/09/20/professor-sir-david-williams-inaugurated-as-chancellor-of-swansea-university/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Williams had been awarded honorary degrees by a dozen institutions, including an honorary [[Doctor of Laws|LLD]] from the [[University of Cambridge]] and a [[Doctor of Civil Law]] from the [[University of Western Ontario]].

Williams died from [[cancer]] on 6 September 2009 at the age of 78.<ref name="death faculty">{{cite web |url=http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2009/09/death-of-professor-sir-david-williams/998 |title=Death of Professor Sir David Williams - Faculty of Law |access-date=2009-09-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090910071535/http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2009/09/death-of-professor-sir-david-williams/998 |archive-date=2009-09-10 }}</ref><ref name="obit Times">{{cite news |title=Professor Sir David Williams: legal scholar |url=https://www.thetimes.com/best-law-firms/profile-legal/article/professor-sir-david-williams-legal-scholar-xsdqwqm8qbc |access-date=28 March 2019 |work=The Times |date=22 September 2009 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2016, the [[Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge|University of Cambridge Faculty of Law]] named its building<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2016/10/naming-law-faculty-building|title=Naming of the Law Faculty building {{!}} Faculty of Law|website=www.law.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref> and a Chair in Public Law<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2016/04/gift-honour-sir-david-williams|title=Gift in honour of Sir David Williams {{!}} Faculty of Law|website=www.law.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref> after him.

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/6248213/Professor-Sir-David-Williams.html Professor David Williams] - Daily Telegraph obituary

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[[Category:Harvard University fellows]]
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