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Sir Howell J. Williams

Categories: Politics & Administration

Countries: Wales

Building contractor. Vice-president of the Royal Northern Hospital. Represented Islington in the LCC for nearly thirty years. In about 1930 he purchased a site on Gray’s Inn Road as a gift for the Young Wales Association, a precursor of the London Welsh Association/London Welsh Centre.

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Sir Howell J. Williams

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College of Minor Canons in St Paul’s Cathedral

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