Papers: Real estate of the Rev. James Williams of Llanfairynghornwy

Papers: Real estate of the Rev. James Williams of Llanfairynghornwy.

Reverend Williams was one of two Victorian clergymen who went into mountainous seas to save the lives of stricken sailors. In October, 1835 members of the Royal National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck decided to award the Rev James Williams a gold medal for his exploits in saving the boat Active at Cemaes Bay. He was also acknowledged for his invention of the self-inflating life-buoy and for his role in the rescue of another wreck, Sarah of Liverpool, at Trecastle. Mr Williams was a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a curate and rector in Anglesey before becoming Chancellor of Bangor Cathedral in 1851. Moved by the death of 140 people on the vessel Alert off Carmel Head in 1823, he began raising funds and successfully secured a lifeboat for Cemlyn in 1828. An Anglesey branch of the RNIPLS was formed later that year, when Williams also oversaw the construction of the first lifeboat ever built at Holyhead. He died in 1872 and was buried at St Mary's Parish Church in Llanfairynghornwy. His son, Owen Lloyd Williams, followed his father into the church and the RNLI, and is recorded as having said: "I am happiest when I am rescuing people at sea." In charge of the Cemlyn lifeboat at the age of 20, and later the honorary secretary of the Abersoch RNLI, he is credited with feats including the rescue of 34 men in 1862, and was awarded an RNLI silver medal for the rescue of 13 men from the Liverpool ship Kenilworth in January 1870, after it grounded near Barmouth while returning from New Orleans with a cotton cargo.

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