14 Facts About Fenwick Williams

General Sir William Fenwick Williams, 1st Baronet of Kars was a Nova Scotian military leader for the British during the Victorian era.

Fenwick Williams was imprisoned at Ryazan, but he was treated very well and released at the end of the Crimean War in 1856.

Fenwick Williams was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the second son of Commissary-General Thomas Williams, barrack-master at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Fenwick Williams was widely rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn; this would make him Queen Victoria's half-brother.

Fenwick Williams never denied this, but it is not thought to be true.

Fenwick Williams was educated at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich.

Fenwick Williams entered the Royal Artillery as second lieutenant in 1825.

Fenwick Williams's services were lent to Turkey in 1841, and he was employed as a captain in the arsenal at Constantinople.

Fenwick Williams was British commissioner in the conferences preceding the treaty of Erzurum in 1847, and again in the settlement of the Ottoman-Iranian boundary in 1848.

Fenwick Williams was imprisoned at Ryazan but he was treated very well and released at the end of the Crimean War in 1856.

Fenwick Williams was promoted to lieutenant-general and appointed colonel-commandant Royal Artillery in 1864.

Fenwick Williams held the governorship of Nova Scotia from 1865 to 1867.

Fenwick Williams was advanced to GCB in 1871 and Constable of the Tower of London in 1881.

Fenwick Williams died in a hotel in Pall Mall on 26 July 1883 and was buried in Brompton Cemetery.