Frederick Wells Williams, B.A. 1879.

Born October 31, 1857, in Macao, China
Died January 22, 1928, in New Haven, Conn

Father, Samuel Wells Williams (LL D. Union 1; honorary M.A. Yale 1877); missionary under the American Board, Sinologue; secretary and interpreter of American Legation, Peking, China, twenty-one years, often acting as charge d'affaires; member of Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan 1854; professor of the Chinese language and literature at Yale 1877-1884; president of American Oriental Society, son of William and Sophia (Wells) Williams; grandson of Thomas Williams, a member of the Boston Tea Party and a Minute Man at Lexington; descendant in the sixth generation of Robert Williams, who came from Norfolk County, England, in 1637 and settled at Roxbury, Mass ; descended also from Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut.

Mother, Sarah Simonds (Walworth) Williams; daughter of Major John Walworth, U S A , and Catherine Maria (Bailey) Walworth, descendant of Sir William Walworth, Mayor of London in the Wat Tyler Rebellion of 13 81, and of William Walworth, who came to America in 1689 and settled on Fisher's Island,
N. Y. Hopkins Grammar School. Chairman of Class Day Committee; member Linonia, Delta Kappa, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head Studied at universities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Pans 1879-1881; assisted his father in revising his book on China {The Middle Kingdom) 1881-83; assistant in Yale Library 1883-85; traveled abroad 1885-86; literary editor of The National Baptist 1887-1893, instructor in Oriental history at Yale 1893-1900 and then assistant professor of modern Oriental history until his retirement in 1925; chairman of executive committee of Yale Foreign Missionary Society 1902-1917, chairman of board of trustees of Yale in-China since 1917; had served as treasurer of American Oriental Society and of Connecticut branch of Egypt Exploration Fund and as director of New Haven Colony Historical Society (member of standing finance committee), in 1912 gave a course of lectures at Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass.; secretary of Class of 1879 since 1906; during the war served as member of advisory committee of New Haven Emergency Committee of New Haven War Bureau and compiled articles for U. S. War Research Bureau; vestryman and warden of St. John's Episcopal Church, New Haven (senior warden since 1912); author: Life and Letters of S. Wells Williams'y LL D (1889), History of China (1897), Chinese Folklore (Smithsonian Report for 1900), Problems of Chinese Immigration m Farther Asia (1900), China and Japan (Book IV, Vol. II), History of All Nations (1903), A History of the Class of 1879, Tale College (1906), Relations Between the United States and China (1910), Anson Burhngame and the First Chinese Mission to Foreign Powers (1912), and The Best Hundred Books on China (1924); editor: G B Bacon's Siam (1892), Memorial Volume on Professor H G Williams (1896), Memorial Volume on R. S. Williams of Utica (1900), and Williams1 Journal of the Perry Expeditions to Japan (1901); contributor of articles on Chinese and other Asiatic subjects to Popular Science Monthly, Tale Review, Tale Law Journal, International Quarterly, and other journals; a founder of the Elizabethan Club at Yale in 1911 and trustee until his death; one of the scholarships established by the Phelps Association (Wolf's Head Society) named in his honor.

Married November 19, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pa , Fanny Hapgood, daughter of the Rev. Heman Lincoln Wayland (B.A. Brown 1849, D.D. 1869) and Elizabeth Grout (Arms) Wayland, granddaughter of President Francis Wayland of Brown University, and niece of Francis Wayland (honorary M.A. 1881), Dean of Yale School of Law 1872-1903

Children: Wayland Wells (B.A. 1910) and Elizabeth (B.F.A.1925), the wife of Dalton V. Garstin, '17.

Death, due to heart failure, occurred after an" illness of a few days.
Cremation took place in Springfield, Mass., ashes buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven

Survived by wife, son, daughter, and a sister, Lady Gray, wife of Sir Albert Gray, K.C.B., of London. By the terms of his will his collection of Chinese Porcelains and Curiosities, previously deposited as a loan at the Art School, was given to Yale to be placed in the Gallery of Fine Arts, and $5,000 was left to Yale-in-China, to be held as an endowment, and the income used, at the discretion of the trustees, so long as the institution is controlled by a board of trustees of Yale graduates m America.

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