Hugh Williams was a Welsh

Wales

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 politician.

He was the son of John Williams, of Chester

Chester

Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...

 and Glascoed

Glascoed

Glascoed is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom.- Location :Glascoed is located three miles east of Pontypool and three miles west of Usk.- History & Amenities :...

, who was in turn a younger son of Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet. Hugh matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College, Oxford

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 in 1712, entered Gray's Inn

Gray's Inn

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 on 10 February 1713, and was called to the bar in 1718.

He married first Ursula Bridgeman, daughter of Sir John Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet, and second Susannah Norris, daughter of Edward Norris

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, but had no children by either.

Williams defeated Thomas Lloyd, of Llanidan

Llanidan

Llanidan is a parish in south-west Anglesey, Wales which includes the village of Brynsiencyn. The parish is located along the Menai Strait, approximately 4 miles north-east of Caernarfon . The parish church is located near the A4080 highway, a little to the east of Brynsiencyn...

, in 1725 to enter the House of Commons

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 for Anglesey as a Whig

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. He defeated Lloyd again in the election of 1727

British general election, 1727

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. He voted in favor of the bill to retain the Hessian troops in British pay in 1730 and the Excise Bill in 1733. He was unsuccessful in contesting Chester in 1734 and left Parliament, dying on 14 or 18 January 1742.