Montagu Williams

Montagu Stephen Williams Q.C. (30 September 1835 – 23 December 1892) was an English teacher, army officer, actor, playwright, barrister and magistrate.

Williams was educated at Eton College and started his career as a schoolmaster at Ipswich School. On the outbreak of the Crimean War he joined the Royal South Lincoln Militia and fought at Sevastopol. He later went onto the stage and was called to the bar in 1862. In 1879 we was appointed junior Treasury counsel, retiring from the post in 1886 due to a growth on the larynx which seriously affected his voice^[1] and succeeded by Sir Charles Willie Mathews, 1st Baronet. Williams was appointed Queen's Counsel and took up a post as metropolitan magistrate.

His clients included Catherine Wilson, whom he defended twice on murder charges; George Henry Lamson, hanged in 1882 for poisoning his brother-in-law;^[2] Percy Lefroy Mapleton, the "railway murderer", hanged in 1881;^[2] John Young, acquitted of manslaughter after his opponent in a boxing match died, establishing a legal precedent.^[3]

He married Louise Keeley, daughter of Robert Keeley in 1858: she died in 1877. He died at Ramsgate in 1892 of uraemia.^[1]

Publications

• Leaves of a life, 2 vols, 1890
• Later leaves (Macmillan) 1891

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "The case of the late Mr Montague Williams". British Medical Journal: 1440. 31 December 1892. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Horace Bleackley (1929). The hangmen of England: how they hanged and whom they hanged : the life story of "Jack Ketch" through two centuries. Taylor & Francis. p. 245. ISBN 0715811843. 
3. ^ Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation. ABC-CLIO. 2010. p. 465. ISBN 1598842439. 

• Hugh H. L. Bellot (2005). The Inner And Middle Temple: Legal, Literary And Historic Associations (reprint ed.). Kessinger Publishing. pp. 85–87. ISBN 1417954388. 
• John Andrew Hamilton. "Williams, Montagu Stephen". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. 61. 

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