page_title: Fenwick Williams
section_title: Governorships
hierarchical_section_title: Fenwick Williams / Governorships
caption_attribution_description: English: A plaque affixed to the facade of the Royal Bank building in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. It was placed there by the Nova Scotia Historical Society, and marks his birth place.
context_page_description: General Sir William Fenwick Williams, 1st Baronet of Kars GCB was a Nova Scotian and renowned military leader for the British during the Victorian era.
  Williams is remembered for his gallant defence of the town of Kars during the Crimean War. He with other British officers inspired the poorly equipped Turkish soldiers to repel Russian attacks by General Murav’ev on the besieged town for three months causing 6,000 Russian casualties. They were forced to surrender due to starvation, disease and shortage of ammunition. However, they surrendered on their own terms, with the officers being allowed to retain their swords. Williams was imprisoned at Ryazan but he was treated very well and released at the end of the Crimean War in 1856. Before returning home he was introduced to Czar Alexander II.
  Many other honours were bestowed upon Williams and it was particularly fitting that in 1865–7, he was appointed the first Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, where he had been born at the turn of the 19th century.
context_section_description: He held the governorship of Nova Scotia 1865–1867.  Post Canadian Confederation in 1867, Williams was reappointed as the first Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and the governorship of Gibraltar from September 1870 to 1876. He was advanced to GCB in 1871, and Constable of the Tower of London in 1881.
caption: Plaque honouring Sir William Fenwick Williams, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
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