David Williams was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician who served for a short time as the Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for the Merioneth constituency

Merioneth (UK Parliament constituency)

Merioneth, sometimes called Merionethshire, was a constituency in North Wales established in 1542, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English Parliament, and later to the Parliament of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom...

. Elected in 1868, he died in office the following year.

Upbringing

The son of David and Margaret Williams, he was born at Saethon in the parish of Llanfihangel Bachellaeth

Llanfihangel Bachellaeth

Llanfihangel Bachellaeth is a former civil parish in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It was abolished in 1934, and incorporated into Buan....

, Caernarfonshire

Caernarfonshire

Caernarfonshire , historically spelled as Caernarvonshire or Carnarvonshire in English during its existence, was one of the thirteen historic counties, a vice-county and a former administrative county of Wales....

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Politics

He stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Merioneth in 1859 and 1865 before being elected in 1868. His eldest son Sir Osmond Williams

Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet

Sir Arthur Osmond Williams was a Welsh Liberal Party politician.- Background :He was born at Llanfihangel-y-Traethau, Merionethshire, Wales. He was the son of David Williams, M.P. for Merioneth 1868-1869, and Anne Louisa Loveday Williams. Arthur was educated at Eton...

also represented the seat from 1900 to 1910.