Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel

Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel CBE ( born February 9, 1933) is a British peer and manager.

Career

The son of NP Williams and Muriel de Lérisson Cazenove attended Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Literae humaniores in 1955 and a Master of Arts. He later attended the London School of Economics, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1964. Between 1955 and 1957 he served as a subaltern in the headquarters of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in Winchester and the 1st Battalion in Derna in Libya.

Williams worked for the British Petroleum Co. Ltd from 1958 to 1964. Between 1964 and 1966 he was personal assistant to the manager of the Guatemala department of the Bank of London and Montreal, and from 1966 to 1970 he was manager of mergers and acquisitions of Euro Finance SA Paris. For Baring Bros & Co. Ltd., he worked from 1970 to 1977, as Managing Director from 1971. Between 1977 and 1979 he was chairman of the Price Commission and from 1985 to 1992 director of Mirror Group Newspapers plc. Between 1979 and 1982 he was managing director of Henry Ansbacher & Co. Ltd. and 1982-1985 by Henry Ansbacher Holdings.

From 1988 to 1990 Williams Chairman of the Academy of St Martin-in -the-Fields, and from 1989 to 1999, busby trustee of Westminster School. The campaign for the protection of Rural Wales ( CPRW ), he was president from 1989 to 1995. Since 1995 he has been Vice President and President of the Radnor division. In 1980 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE).

On May 22, 1985, he was elevated to a Life Peer. He sits for Labour in the House of Lords.

He played 87 first-class matches in cricket, 40 of which for Essex County Cricket Club.

Family

Since 1975 he is married to Jane Gillian portal. He has a stepson, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

Works

• The Last Great Frenchman: a life of General de Gaulle ( 1993)
• Bradman: an Australian Hero (1996 )
• Adenauer: the Father of the New Germany (2000)
• Pétain (2005)