Major-General Sir Albert Henry Wilmot Williams, (7 February 1832 – 29 October 1919) was a British Army officer and courtier.
Early life and family Albert Henry Wilmot Williams was born on 7 February 1832, the second son of Captain James Wilmot Williams (died 1845), of Herringston in Dorset, and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Magenis, daughter of Richard Magenis, of County Down, a member of Parliament, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Cole, daughter of William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen.M. H. Massue, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Exeter Volume (reprinted 1994), p. 139.J. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (1833), vol. 1, p. 614 The family were long-established members of the English landed gentry and the elder Williams had inherited his father's estate in 1757. The younger Williams had four siblings: Edward Wilmot Williams, JP, DL (b. 1826), sometime an officer in the Bengal Cavalry and husband of a daughter of the 2nd Viscount Guillamore; Ashley George Wilmot Williams (b. 1834), who married, and lived at Cadlington, Blendworth, Horndean in Hampshire; Florence Elizabeth Wilmot Williams (d. 1887), who married Hon. St Leger Richard Glyn; and Gertrude Mary Wilmot Williams, who married Major General Sir Alexander Elliot.M. H. Massue, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Exeter Volume (reprinted 1994), pp. 139–140.
Military career In December 1849, Williams was promoted from Gentleman Cadet to second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.London Gazette 1 January 1850 (issue 21055), p. 1. Further promotions followed: lieutenant in 1851,London Gazette, 8 April 1851 (issue 21198), p. 955. second captain (1856),London Gazette, 29 February 1856 (issue 21855), p. 868. captain (1863),The Edinburgh Gazette, 14 July 1863 (issue 7344), p. 867. and major (1872).London Gazette, 16 July 1872 (issue 23876), p. 3191. In 1875, he was made a lieutenant colonel and six years later a colonel. During his career, he saw active service in the Crimean War and in central Asia, and was mentioned in despatches during the Indian Mutiny."Williams, Maj.-Gen. Sir Albert Henry Wilmot", Who Was Who (online edition), Oxford University Press, 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2017.The London Gazette, 11 October 1881 (issue 25025), p. 5041. In 1883, he was appointed a Colonel on the Staff in command of the Royal Artillery at Aldershot, in the place of Colonel William Reilly;London Gazette, 6 February 1883 (issue 25195), p. 664. two years later, he was appointed an Extra Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge,London Gazette, 9 June 1885 (issue 25478), p. 2638. and then three years after that he was made major general on the staff commanding troops at Woolwich.London Gazette, 17 April 1888 (issue 25808), p. 2198. In 1892, Williams was made Deputy Adjutant General at the Artillery Headquarters;London Gazette, 22 November 1892 (issue 26347), p. 6585. in 1894, he was placed on retired pay and made an Extra Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge.London Gazette, 16 February 1894 (issue 26485), p. 986.London Gazette, 17 April 1894 (issue 26504), p. 2171. He remained in the Duke's service, eventually as an equerry, until the Duke's death in 1904, when Edward VII appointed him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.London Gazette, 25 March 1904 (issue 27661), p. 1945. The following year, he became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery.Western Gazette, 31 October 1919, p. 4.
Williams never married. He was a member of the United Service and Turf clubs and died on 29 October 1919.
Likenesses Portrait by Walter Stoneman; bromide print, 1917 (6 1/8 in. x 4 3/4 in./155 mm x 120 mm). Housed in the Photographs Collection, National Portrait Gallery, London (ref. number NPG x186167).
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