DR. HAROLD WILLIAMS
"Cheerful Giver" is the title of a life of Dr. Harold Williams by his wife, Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams. In years of childhood and youth Harold Williams was in New Zealand; his father, a Methodist missionary, had taken the family there in 1870. The boy showed genius for acquiring languages; when he was eleven he knew seven languages, one of which was Maori, and in later life he increased the number to about fifty. After taking the degree of doctor of philosophy at Munich with a thesis on languages, he became special correspondent of "The Times" at Stuttgart when that city was the headquarters of Russian reformers. It was there that he met his wife.-a Russian.
For many years from 1904 Williams was a correspondent of English journals in St. Petersburg, and on' his representations the British Ambassador, Sir George Buchanan, twice spoke to the Tsar about the grave consequences that were probable if political reforms were not allowed. Williams returned to England in 1918. Afterwards he was with the British Military Mission with Denikin's forces, and from 1922 to 1928, the year in which he died, he was foreign editor of "The Times."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 25
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195DR. HAROLD WILLIAMS Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 25
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