Williams, ISAAC

Williams, ISAAC, Tractarian, was born on 12th December 1802 at Cwmcyfnelin near Aberystwith, his maternal grandfather's home, and was brought up in London, his father being a Chancery barrister. He was educated at Worpleson near Guildford, at Harrow, and at Trinity College, Oxford; in 1822 made the acquaintance of Keble, and through him of Hurrell Froude; and in 1829 was ordained to the Oxfordshire curacy of Windrush. Elected in 1831 a fellow of his college, he was subsequently curate to Newman, and at Bisley; in 1842 stood unsuccessfully for the Oxford chair of Poetry; and for seventeen years lived at Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire, where he died, 1st May 1865. His works, nearly thirty in number, were chiefly religious poetry; but the most noteworthy was Tract 80, on 'Reserve in Religious Teaching.' See his Autobiography (1892).