David Glyndwr Tudor Williams
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Sir David Williams QC, DL |
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| Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge | |
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In office 1989-1996 |
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| Chancellor | HRH The Duke of Edinburgh |
| Preceded by | Michael McCrum |
| Succeeded by | Alec Broers |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 October 1930 |
| Died | 6 September 2009 (aged 78) |
| Alma mater |
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, QC, DL (22 October 1930 – 6 September 2009), was a barrister and the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1989–1996.
He was first educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, and was a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (in History and Law). He was a Harkness Fellow at Berkeley and Harvard between 1956 and 1958. He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from Keble College, Oxford in 1967 and was subsequently promoted to Reader in Public Law 1976-1980, before being appointed Rouse Ball Professor of English Law 1983-1992 and elected President of Wolfson College, Cambridge 1980-1992.
In 1989 he was appointed the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In 2007 he was appointed as the chancellor of Swansea University.
Sir David had been awarded honorary degrees by a dozen institutions, including an honorary LLD from the University of Cambridge and a Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Western Ontario.
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