Williams, Rowland, English clergyman, born in Flintshire; was a prominent member of the Broad Church party; was condemned, though the judgment was reversed, by the Court of Arches, for a paper contributed to the famous “Essays and Reviews”; wrote “Rational Godliness,” “Christianity and Hinduism,” &c. (1817‒1870).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Williams, Roger * Willibrod, St.