the question over the Pershing Cruise Missile Deployment. In 1986 he became Director of the Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom, a member of the Atlantic Treaty Association. He served in this capacity until 2007. He was elected President of the Atlantic Treaty Association in 2000, serving until 2003, and from 2007 held the title of Honorary Vice-President for Life at the Atlantic Council. In 1986, he was made Warden and Chief Executive of Toynbee Hall, the university settlement. He is Chairman of a number of major charities, including the Transport on Water Association and the Sir William Beveridge Foundation. Williams has written and contributed to several books and articles, including A Radical Future (1966), Europe and the Open Sea (1966), Crisis in European Defence (1979), and other works on defence with his brother, Professor Geoffrey Lee Williams. References Bibliography Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979 External links Interviewed on ANN TV 2015 1930 births Living people People educated at the John Roan School Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Fabian Society Councillors in Greater London UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 Officers of the Order of the British Empire Academics of Queen Mary University of London Social Democratic Party (UK) politicians