Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel

Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel,  (9 February 1933 – 30 December 2019) was a British businessman, cricketer and Labour life peer. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1985 until his death.

Cricket and writing
Williams played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1952 to 1955, and for Essex from 1954 to 1959. He appeared in 87 matches as a top-order right-handed batter, scoring 4,090 runs with a highest score of 139 not out. He completed six first-class centuries. In later years, he became a writer. His works included biographies of Don Bradman, Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Philippe Pétain, and Harold Macmillan. In 2012, he wrote the partly autobiographical Gentlemen & Players: The Death of Amateurism in Cricket, which was published on 4 April 2013.

Family
He was the stepfather of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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