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Richard Mackenzie Williams

Welsh Anglican priest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ97155845 ↗
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Richard Mackenzie Williams (2 February 1882 – 12 December 1966) was a Welsh Anglican priest in the mid 20th century who rose to become Archdeacon of Wrexham.

Williams was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1912; and priest in 1913. After a curacies in Gwersyllt and Wrexham he held incumbencies at Caego and Mold. He was also Cursal Canon of St Asaph Cathedral from 1942 until his retirement in 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Mackenzie Williams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.