general election. He was defeated at the next election in 1835. Colonel George Williams died at his Woolton home, aged 85. Family Williams married in 1801, as her second husband, Elizabeth Ashton. She was a widow, having first married in 1787 William Evan James of Liverpool, and was mother with him of William James MP. His stepson James was in parliament from 1820, and became an ally of Williams and the Liverpool reformers. Elizabeth was the daughter of Nicholas Ashton (1744–1833) of Woolton Hall and his wife Mary Warburton Philpot. Through her maternal grandfather John Philpot, she was heiress to the Hefferton Grange estate of the Warburton family. George and Elizabeth had two daughters and two sons. Monier Williams (died 1823), younger brother to George, became Surveyor-General of Bombay, and was father of the orientalist Monier Williams. References Notes 1765 births 1850 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ashton-under-Lyne UK MPs 1832–1835 Wiltshire Regiment officers Lancashire Fusiliers officers