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Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB (8 December 1708 – 2 November 1759) was a Welsh diplomat, writer and satirist. He was a Member of Parliament from 1734 until his death.
5 de fev. de 2024 · Charles Williams, Esquire, of Caerleon in the county of Monmouth, died the 29th of August 1720 aged 87. He was truly a Christian, a strenuous defender of the Church of England, a lover of his country and defender of public liberty; towards the poor, those especially of his neighbourhood, devoutly liberal, to his friends generously ...
- August 29, 1720
Charles Hanbury Williams wrote much satirical verse, and Horace Walpole professed to believe him the greatest poet of his generation. In 1746 he began the series of diplomatic missions for which he is best known.
Hanbury Williams came into the fortune of his godfather, Charles Williams, a rich Smyrna merchant, whose name he assumed.1 Succeeding to his father’s seat in March 1735, he made his first reported speech against a place bill, 22 Apr.2 At the opening of the next session he was chosen to second the Address by Walpole, who in 1737 proposed him ...
Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams (1708-1759) was a Welsh politician, diplomat, and poet. He was born in London, the fourth of seven sons born to John Hanbury (1664-1734) of Pontypool, Wales, and his second wife Bridget Ayscough (-1741). The Hanbury family made their fortune from Welsh iron mines.
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. (1708-1759), Satirical writer and diplomat. Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 6 portraits. The son of John Hanbury, a Welsh ironmaster, assumed the name of Williams on succeeding to the estate of his godfather Charles Williams, in 1720.
Hanbury Williams was well-known as a diplomatist and man of letters. He was returned for Leominster, where he was high steward, on the interest of his wife’s estate of Hampton Court, Herefordshire. He left England in August 1754, before the new Parliament assembled, and when he returned in February 1758 was insane and unable to take any part ...
