Harold Heathcote-Williams

Harold Heathcote Williams QC (19 September 1896 – 15 August 1964), was a British Liberal Party politician and barrister. Background He was the 9th son of Joseph Ellis Williams and Martha Amelia Heathcote, of Abbotsfield, Chester. He was educated at The King's School, Chester and Brasenose College, Oxford (Hulme Scholar). He received an Honours in Jurisprudence in 1922. He married, in 1940, Margaret Julian Henley. They had one son (poet, dramatist and actor John Henley Heathcote-Williams, known as 'Heathcote Williams') and one daughter. Career He served in the European War, 1914–19, in the Royal Artillery. He was editor of Isis, 1922–23. He was a barrister, having been called to the bar, Inner Temple, in 1923. He was appointed recorder of Tiverton in 1947 serving for the next 4 years. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1949. He was Master of the Bench of The Inner Temple in 1957. He was Legal Member of Council of the Town Planning Institute Political career