David Glyndwr Tudor Williams

Sir David Williams QC, DL
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
In office 1989-1996
Chancellor	HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Preceded by	Michael McCrum
Succeeded by	Alec Broers
Personal details
Born	(1930-10-22)22 October 1930
Died
Alma mater	Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, QC, DL (22 October 1930 – 6 September 2009), was a barrister and the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1989–1996.

He was first educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, and was a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (in History and Law). He was a Harkness Fellow at Berkeley and Harvard between 1956 and 1958. He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from Keble College, Oxford in 1967 and was subsequently promoted to Reader in Public Law 1976-1980, before being appointed Rouse Ball Professor of English Law 1983-1992 and elected President of Wolfson College, Cambridge 1980-1992.

In 1989 he was appointed the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In 2007 he was appointed as the chancellor of Swansea University.

Sir David had been awarded honorary degrees by a dozen institutions, including an honorary LLD from the University of Cambridge and a Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Western Ontario.

Sir David died from cancer on 6 September 2009 at the age of 78.

External links

• Professor David Williams - Daily Telegraph obituary

Academic offices
Preceded by John Morrison	President of Wolfson College, Cambridge 1980–1992	Succeeded by John Tusa
Preceded by Michael McCrum	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1989–1996	Succeeded by Alec Broers