Researching Harold Williams

He became the landlord of The Griffin Hotel situated in the small quiet village of Gildersome near Morley after he retired from football, he ran the pub with his wife-and the pair earned much respect with their strictness.

At the time of his death in 2014, he was the oldest surviving Welsh international footballer.

Bishop Harold Ivory Williams, D. Min.Presiding Prelate of the Mt. Calvary Holy Churches of America, Inc. 1972 - 2009

Bishop Harold I. Williams was born April 20, 1921 in Benton, Maryland and attended the public schools of Baltimore, Maryland including the Frederick Douglas High School. He holds a BA Degree from Coppin State College, also in Baltimore, Maryland; a Master of Divinity, and a Doctorate of Ministry Degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C.. Bishop Williams has also done post-graduate studies at the St. MaryÕs Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland.

Bishop Williams has been instrumental in spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to hungry souls. He joined the Mt. Calvary Holy Church at the age of 16. In 1949, Bishop Williams pastored his first church in Washington D.C., Mt. Calvary Holy Church #1 which later merged with the Christ is the Answer Church pastored by Rev. Alfred Owens to become one of the nations fastest growing churches - Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church. The church is still pastored by the Bishop Alfred Owens and, along with being a viable part of its community with over 4000 members, is also the national headquarters for the national organization of the Mt. Calvary Holy Churches of America, Inc.. In 1958, he co-founded the Mount Calvary Holy Temple in Baltimore, Maryland with his mother, Rev. Ethel Williams, and his late companion, Dr. Amanda Williams. That church is now pastored by Bishop Hansel Henry and includes the Baltimore Christian Academy and Educational Institution.

In 1972, Bishop H. I. Williams was appointed the Sr. Bishop and Overseer of the Mount Calvary Holy Churches of America, Inc., which has grown to over 60 churches in the United States and abroad since 1948.

Bishop Harold Williams has been a member of many organizations including the Minister Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity; the Baltimore Clergy In Action; the Pastor's Conference; the Pentecostal Ministers Alliance; and the Bishop's Council International just to name a few. He has also served on various other religious and civic organizations. Currently, he is a member of the Executive Council of the International Congress of Local Churches, founded by the Bishop Donald Meares along with his other numerous responsibilities and busy schedule.

His travels are far and extensive and include most of the United States, England, Spain, Rome, Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and Jerusalem. In 1969, Bishop Williams was chosen to lead a delegation to Barbados, West Indies and has continued to do so since its inception.

He and his late companion, Dr. Amanda Williams, were married for 35 years before her death, and were the parents of two children, Harold I. Williams, Jr., and Hope Ivey Mason. He also has two grandchildren.

Bishop Harold Williams now serves as the pastor of the Mount Calvary Holy Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his wife, Pastor Shirley Caesar Williams, was his Co-Pastor for seven years. His wife now serves as the pastor of the Mount Calvary Word of Faith Holy church in Raleigh, North Carolina where she is preparing to build a church that will seat 1,500 people including offices, classrooms and a nursery.

Bishop Harold Ivory Williams is a dynamic speaker who adds RHEMA to the word. With his scholarly intellect and wisdom, he is known to have a knack for bringing the Word to a level that is easier for the Saints of God to understand. Because of this unique ability Bishop Williams is a widely sought after speaker to minister at churches, conferences, and convocations across the United States and abroady cju.

Williams born in Tokyo, the son of Rev. James Williams, an Anglican missionary in Japan, and Mary Ann Hodson Grindrod. He returned to England to attend Liverpool College and Christ's College, Cambridge (1904). He won the undergraduate Carus Prize for Greek Testament scholarship in 1901. Ordained in 1904, he held several posts before resigning as a priest in 1909.

Williams served as a captain in the Royal Army Service Corps 1914–19. In 1920, he was called to the Bar (Inner Temple). He resided in Buntingford, Hertfordshire and served as a Justice of the Peace and chairman of the Hertfordshire County council (1947–50).

Williams wrote Book Clubs & Printing Societies of Great Britain & Ireland (1929) and served as president of the Bibliographical Society 1938–44. He was knighted in the 1951 King's Birthday Honours List for his work in local government and bibliography. He was elected to the British Academy (1944) and the Society of Antiquaries of London (1948). He wrote a number of books on literary subjects (Two Centuries of the English Novel, Outlines of Modern English Literature, 1890-1914), but his specialty was the work of Jonathan Swift - he wrote Dean Swift's Library (1932), edited an edition of The Poems of Jonathan Swift (1937, revised 1958), delivered the Sandars Lectures at Cambridge in 1950 on the subject of "New Light on the Publication of Gulliver's Travels" and published three volumes of Swift's Letters in his lifetime (with two more published posthumously). Williams bequeathed his library of rare books relating to Swift to Cambridge University and a version of Jervas's first portrait of Swift to the National Portrait Gallery.