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  in her till the peace. At Copenhagen in 1807 he served both afloat and ashore, working at the land batteries, and was told off for a forlorn hope on the eve of the capitulation. After seeing much farther service at the Cape, the Mauritius, Madras, and Calcutta, until 1815, when he was made lieutenant, he retired on half-pay, which he continued to draw until 1827, when the Admiralty ordered that all officers in holy orders should be struck off the pay list. Having been informed that the Church Missionary Society were about to equip a vessel for the New Zealand station, he offered to take the command. Their intention had already been relinquished, but he was told that he might be received as a missionary. He closed with the proposal, expecting to be employed as a layman, and addressed himself forthwith to preparation for the work. Disastrous news meantime arrived from New Zealand. Intelligence was daily expected in England that the Society's pioneers had been expelled from the country, and that the mission would have to be altogether abandoned. Meanwhile he turned his attention to surgery and medicine, for the practice of which, especially of the former, he found much occasion during his after-career. He also strove to acquire a general knowledge of all crafts likely to be of practical use in an uncivilised country. In 1820 he went to Balder, where he remained until Sept. 1821, when he went to Hampstead. While at Balder he was directed by the Society to remain at least two years longer in England, and to study for ordination. He was ordained both deacon and priest in June 1822. Bad news from New Zealand being again received, the Society offered to change Mr. Williams's scene of labour; but he induced them to permit him to proceed to his former destination. Arriving at Hobart Town, Tasmania, Mr. Williams met that eminent missionary pioneer Samuel Marsden for the first time. Proceeding to Sydney, he lost no time in engaging a passage to New Zealand, landing at the Bay of Islands in August 1823. His first station was at Paihia, a few miles up the harbour, and for upwards of forty-four years he laboured as a missionary in New Zealand. So much was he beloved by the Maoris, whose rights he on many occasions vindicated, that they subscribed the sum of £200 for the erection of a monument to his memory, refusing any contribution from Europeans. Archdeacon Williams died on July 16th, 1867, at Pakaraka, where he was buried. He was appointed to the archidiaconate by Bishop in 1844, and fell into disfavour with the Church Missionary Society in 1848 through his refusal to surrender large land purchases which he had made from the natives' In 1850 the Society dismissed him, but in 1854, after conference with Bishop Selwyn and Sir George Grey, they revoked their censure, and requested him to return. Archdeacon Williams, whose life was written by his son-in-law, (q.v.), married on Jan. 20th, 1818, Marianne, daughter of Wright Coldham, who survived him, and died at Pakaraka on Dec. 16th, 1879.

Williams, Major Horatio Lloyd, J.P, was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and entered the army as ensign in the 12th Foot in Oct. 1853, and served with a detachment of the 12th and 40th Regiments, under Major Thomas at the storming of the Eureka Stockade during the gold-diggers' riots at Ballarat, Vict., in 1854. He became lieutenant in the 12th Foot in May 1857, and lieutenant on the volunteer staff of South Australia in May 1860. He was appointed lieutenant in command of the "Sydney volunteers" for the New Zealand Militia in Sept. 1863; adjutant to the left wing, under Colonel Moule, in April 1864; and captain in the New Zealand Militia in Feb. 1865. Whilst serving in New Zealand he was present with General Sir Duncan Campbell's forces in their advance against the Maori position at Mere Mere, Waikato, at the repulse of the Maoris at the Waira river, the capture of Orakau, and with the expeditionary force under Brigadier-General Carey from the Thames district to the Queen's Redoubt. In July 1877 he was appointed lieutenant on the staff of the South Australian military forces, captain and staff-adjutant in Dec. 1880, and honorary major in Jan. 1888.

Williams, John, J. P., was appointed Crown Solicitor of New South Wales in June 1859. He was also chairman of the Civil Service Board, constituted under the Act of 1883. He retired in 1890, and died on Oct. 20th, 1891. 510