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:''Not to be confused with the rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s Dickie Williams'' :''Not to be confused with the Australian rugby league footballer Richard Williams (rugby league)'' }} Colonel Richard Davies Garnons Williams (15 June 1856 – 27 September 1915) was an officer of the British Army, and a rugby union player who represented , Brecon and Newport. Garnons Williams played in the first Wales international rugby union match in 1881. He became an officer in the British Army in 1876, and retired from regular service in 1892, though he continued to serve in a voluntary capacity until 1906. Already aged 58 at the outbreak of the First World War, he rejoined the army and was killed in action in 1915. ==Early life and family== Richard Garnons Williams was born on 15 June 1856 in Llowes, Radnorshire, the second child of the Reverend Garnons Williams of Abercamlais, Powys, and his wife Catherine Frances, the daughter of Fenton Hort, of Leopardstown, Dublin, and sister of Fenton John Anthony Hort.〔(Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort ) Internet Archive.org〕 Garnons Williams was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford before being prepared for University by private tuition in Wimbledon, Surrey. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1874, His siblings were Reverend Arthur, Richard Davies, Captain Aylmer Herbert, Gerald, Katharine Frances Helena, Annabella Mary, Hugh, who died an infant, Mark Penry Fenton, and Mary Elizabeth. Aylmer Herbert joined the Royal Navy in 1871 and, after receiving his commission in 1880, served until his retirement in 1902, having reached the rank of captain. He then took command of the training ship HMS ''Cornwall'' until 1904 when he was appointed to command the Lancashire Navy League Sea Training Home at Liscard. He died on 8 February 1916 aged 58. Gerald was married in April 1892 to Minnie Lilian Court, the youngest daughter of Major Henry Court of Iverfarne, Buckinghamshire. Penry was Fleet Surgeon aboard and died when his vessel was wrecked in 1916. Richard Garnons Williams married Alice Jessie Bircham on 8 January 1885. They had a daughter, Barbara, who married Captain Hume Buckley Roderick of the Welsh Guards on 9 November 1916. Her husband was killed in action on the Western Front in 1917. She was herself serving in France at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Garnons Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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