Arthur Williams

Who was Arthur Williams?

The Rt Rev Arthur Acheson Williams was the 2nd Bishop of Tinnevelly in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.

He was born in 1848, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1870. He was then held curacies at Bromley and St John the Evangelist, Penge. Emigrating to India he became Chaplain of St George’s Cathedral, Madras and then the incumbent at Vellore. His last post before elevation to the Episcopate was as Archdeacon of Madras.