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Willson, A. N (Rower)
c 1968 - c 1990

Rowed number 7 and coached for Jesus college Boat Club in the 1970s.

Person · 1921 - 1988

Raymond Williams was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village of Pandy, and was educated at the village school, at Abergavenny Grammar School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the war as an anti-tank captain, he became an adult education tutor in the Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies. In 1947 he was an editor of Politics and Letters, and in the 1960s was general editor of the New Thinker’s Library. He was elected Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1961 and was later appointed Professor of Drama.

He got married in 1942, had three children, and divided his time between Saffron Walden, near Cambridge, and Wales. He died in 1988.

1866-1933

Percy Temple Williams was born on 19 March 1866 in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. He came up to Jesus College in in 1887, received a B. A. in 1890 and an M. A. in 1894. He was ordained as a priest in 1890 and served in the Great War from 1914-1919. He became Chaplain to the Bishop of Auckland. He dies on 12 October 1933 in Auckland New Zealand.

1870-1965

Arnold Beetham Williams came up to Jesus College in 1889 and played rugby for the College Team. He lived in New Zealand and became a sheep farmer.