Aeneas Francon Williams
| Aeneas Francon Williams | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 February 1886 Liscard, Liverpool, Britain |
| Died | 9 December 1971 (aged 85) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Missionary, Minister, Chaplain, teacher, writer, poet |
| Spouse(s) | Clara Anne Rendall |
| Children | Alfred Francon Williams Beatrice Clara Williams |
| Parent(s) |
John Francon Williams Barbara Balmain Dougall |
Rev Aeneas Francon Williams, F.R.S.C.S. (17 February 1886 – 9 December 1971) was a Minister of the Church of Scotland, a Missionary, Chaplain, writer and a poet. Williams was a missionary in the Eastern Himalayas and China and writer of many published works.
Aeneas Francon Williams was born in Liscard, Liverpool, the second son of four to John Francon Williams F.R.G.S. and Barbara Balmain Dougall. Aeneas had three brothers, John B., David Dougal Williams and George Francon and a sister, Margaret Mary Ann Williams. Aeneas was baptized at St. Peter’s Church, Liverpool, on 20 July 1886. During Aeneas's formative years he was educated privately. From 1900 to 1906 Aeneas attended the Technical Institute and Student Teacher Centre in Walthamstow, and from 1906 to 1908 he attended the University of Edinburgh and Moray House Training College. In 1932 Aeneas returned to Edinburgh where he studied at the University of Edinburgh New College for a further two years. Aeneas's father John Francon Williams Sr., who was born in 1854 in the village of Llanllechid, in the foothills of the Snowdonia Mountains in Caernarvonshire, North Wales, was also a published writer, newspaper editor, geographer, inventor, historian and cartographer. Aeneas’s mother Barbara was born in Perthshire, Scotland. By 1901, the Williams family was living at Queens Grove Road in the affluent area of Chingford in Essex where, on the 1901 England and Wales Census, Aeneas aged 15, is recorded as being an artist and painter.
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