David Ricardo Williams

David Ricardo Williams worked as a lawyer in British Columbia and was also a writer of both fiction and history. His first book was a history of his parish and after this he wrote books mostly concerned with legal and political figures. Williams was called to the B.C. bar in 1949 and subsequently moved to Duncan where he practised law as a criminal and civil litigator. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1969. Williams was one of the founders of the B.C. Forest Museum, served in the Senate and the Board of Governors at UBC, and served as president of the Duncan Chamber of Commerce. In 1980 he became an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria. He died in 1999, having authored ten books.