| Sir Albert Henry Wilmot Williams | |
| Birth Date: | 1832 2, df=yes |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Branch: | British Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1849–1894 |
| Rank: | Major General |
| Battles: | Crimean War Indian Mutiny |
| Awards: | Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Mentioned in Despatches |
| Laterwork: | Colonel Commandant Royal Horse Artillery |
Major General Sir Albert Henry Wilmot Williams, (7 February 1832 – 29 October 1919) was a British Army officer and courtier.
Albert Henry Wilmot Williams was born on 7 February 1832, the second son of Captain James Wilmot Williams (died 1845), of Herringston in Dorset, and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Magenis, daughter of Richard Magenis, of County Down, a member of Parliament, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Cole, daughter of William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen.[1] [2] The family were long-established members of the English landed gentry and the elder Williams had inherited his father's estate in 1757.[2] The younger Williams had four siblings: Edward Wilmot Williams, JP, DL (b. 1826), sometime an officer in the Bengal Cavalry and husband of a daughter of the 2nd Viscount Guillamore; Ashley George Wilmot Williams (b. 1834), who married, and lived at Cadlington, Blendworth, Horndean in Hampshire; Florence Elizabeth Wilmot Williams (d. 1887), who married Hon. St Leger Richard Glyn; and Gertrude Mary Wilmot Williams, who married Major General Sir Alexander Elliot.[3]
In December 1849, Williams was promoted from Gentleman Cadet to second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.[4] Further promotions followed: lieutenant in 1851,[5] second captain (1856),[6] captain (1863),[7] and major (1872).[8] In 1875, he was made a lieutenant colonel and six years later a colonel. During his career, he saw active service in the Crimean War and in central Asia, and was mentioned in despatches during the Indian Mutiny.[9] [10] In 1883, he was appointed a Colonel on the Staff in command of the Royal Artillery at Aldershot, in the place of Colonel William Reilly;[11] two years later, he was appointed an Extra Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge,[12] and then three years after that he was made major general on the staff commanding troops at Woolwich.[13] In 1892, Williams was made Deputy Adjutant General at the Artillery Headquarters;[14] in 1894, he was placed on retired pay and made an Extra Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge.[15] [16] He remained in the Duke's service, eventually as an equerry, until the Duke's death in 1904, when Edward VII appointed him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.[17] The following year, he became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery.[18]
Williams never married. He was a member of the United Service and Turf clubs and died on 29 October 1919.[9]