T. Marchant Williams

{{Short description|Welsh nationalist author (1845–1914)}}

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Sir Thomas Marchant Williams, writing name T. Marchant Williams, (1845 – 27 October 1914) was a Welsh nationalist, lawyer, and author.

Williams was one of the first students of Aberystwyth University and later received a BA from the University of London. He went on to study law and be active in Welsh associations. In early 1900 he was appointed stipendiary magistrate at Merthyr Tydfil.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Appointment|date=24 February 1900 |page=11 |issue=36074}}{{London Gazette|issue=27170 |page=1432| date=2 March 1900}} Williams founded the paper The Nationalist.{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-MAR-1845|title=Williams, Sir Thomas Marchant (1845-1914), barrister and writer|author=Edward Morgan Humphreys|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=9 October 2019}} Among his works are The Welsh Members of Parliament{{cite book|author1=Richard Carwardine|author2=Jay Sexton|title=The Global Lincoln|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yotoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA154|date=8 July 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-970243-5|page=154}} and poems such as The Cloud.{{cite book|title=The Celtic Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2QGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA169|year=1914|publisher=William Hodge & Company|page=169}} He received a knighthood by 1905.{{cite book|author1=William Cadwaladr Davies|author2=William Lewis Jones|author3=Sir John Edward Lloyd|title=The University of Wales and Its Constituent Colleges|url=https://archive.org/details/universitywales00davigoog|year=1905|publisher=F. E. Robinson & Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universitywales00davigoog/page/n130 106]& 221}}