WILLIAMS, William R, clergyman, born in New York city, 14 October. 1804: died there, 1 April, 1885. His father, the Reverend John Williams, came from Wales in 1795, and was pastor of a Baptist church in New York from 1798 till his death in 1825. The son was graduated at Columbia in 1822, and studied law with Peter A. Jay, whose partner be became. Religious convictions caused him to leave that profession and to devote himself to the Christian ministry. He was ordained pastor of the Amity street Baptist church in 1832. In this relation he continued until his death, though often solicited to accept various chairs in colleges and theological seminaries. Dr. Williams's library was one of the largest and choicest private collections in the country. Though he was a man of very positive convictions, his temper was gentle and eminently catholic. He was one of the foremost leaders in the councils of his own denomination, and an active manager in the great societies that are supported by evangelical Christians in general, as the American tract society and the American Bible society. Columbia gave him the degree of S. T. D. in 1837, and he was a trustee of that college in 1838-'48. The degree of LL.D. was given him by Union in 1859. His chief works, besides many sermons and addresses, are "Miscellanies" (New York, 1850); " Religious Progress" (1850); and " Lectures on the Lord's Prayer" (1851). He was co-editor also of the "Baptist Library."