Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel

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

The son of N. P. Williams and Muriel de Lérisson Cazenove, he was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in literae humaniores in 1955 and a Master of Arts. Williams was further educated at the London School of Economics, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1964. Between 1955 and 1957, he served as Subaltern in the Headquarter of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in Winchester and in the 1st Battalion in Derna in Libya.

William worked for British Petroleum Co. Ltd from 1958 to 1964. From 1964 to 1966, he was personal assistant to the manager of the Guatemala branch of the Bank of London and Montreal and from 1966 to 1970, he was manager of mergers and acquisitions of Eurofinance SA Paris. For Baring Bros & Co. Ltd, he worked between 1970 and 1977, as managing director from 1971. From 1977 to 1979, he was chairman of the Prices 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 between 1982 and 1985 of Henry Ansbacher Holdings.

From 1988 to 1990, Williams was chair of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and from 1989 to 1999 busby trustee of Westminster School. For the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW), he was president between 1989 to 1995, and has been immediate past president and vice-president as well as president of its Radnor branch since 1995. Made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980, he became a life peer with the title Baron Williams of Elvel, of Llansantffraed in Elvel in the County of Powys on 22 May 1985. He sits for Labour in the House of Lords.

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

Since 1975, he has been married to Jane Gillian Portal. He has a stepson.

[edit] 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)

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