Rowland Williams (1817–70)

Theologian. Classical tutor, King’s College, Cambridge, 1843–50. Vice-principal and professor of Hebrew, St David’s Theological College, Lampeter, 1850–62. Vicar of Broad Chalke with Bower Chalke and Alvedistone, Wiltshire, 1858–70. His contribution to Essays and reviews (1860) led to his being prosecuted, together with Henry Bristow Wilson, for heterodoxy in the Court of Arches in 1861; however, the judgement against him was reversed on appeal in 1864.