:Watkin Williams (bishop)

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Watkin Herbert Williams (22 August 1845[http://www.thepeerage.com/p345.htm thePeerage.com] – 19 November 1944The Times, 20 November 1944; pg. 4; Issue 49995; col F Obituary) was Dean of St Asaph from 1892 to 1899. and Bishop of Bangor from 1899 to 1925.”The Clergy List” London, Kelly's, 1913Resignation Of The Bishop Of Bangor, The Times, 11 November 1924; pg. 14; Issue 43806; col F

Williams was educated at Westminster School“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} and Christ Church, Oxford{{alox2|title=Williams, Watkin Herbert}} and ordained in 1871.Ordinations. Lincoln., The Times, 27 December 1871; pg. 8; Issue 27257; col F His first post was a curacy at Rhosllanerchrugog.{{cite book | last=Malden Richard (ed) | author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=69 | year=1920 | isbn=}} He was vicar of Bodelwyddan from 1872 to 1892 and Archdeacon of St Asaph from 1889 to 1892.The Times, 21 June 1889; pg. 13; Issue 32731; col B Ecclesiastical Appointments

He was a very active Freemason, initiated as a student in 1868 in Oxford's Apollo University Lodge. In Wales he joined the Royal Denbigh Lodge, and became its Worshipful Master in 1883, becoming Provincial Grand Chaplain for North Wales in the same year. He became the Grand Chaplain of the United Grand Lodge of England, the most senior clerical appointment in Freemasonry, in 1898.{{cite book |title=Ars Quatuor Coronatorum |first= JW|last= Horsley (The Rev'd Canon)|chapter= Notes on the Grand Chaplains of England |volume= 19|location= London|publisher= Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle Ltd|publication-date= 1906|page= 196}}