KING EDWARD VII SCHOOL

Details from 1996 Who's Who: 

Williams, Sir Edgar, CB  CBE  DSO  DL

(Born 20 Nov 1912, went to Tettenhall college before KES)

Merton College, Oxford - Chambers Postmaster;
First in History, 1934;
Harmsworth senior scholar 1934-45.

History don at Merton until WW2. with a stint at Liverpool University

Went from 2nd lieutenant with 1st King's Dragoon Guards in the western Desert in 1939 to Brigadier on the general staff of 21st army group in Germany in 1944.

• United Nations Security Council secretariat, 1946-47
• Fellow, Balliol College Oxford 1945-80
• Member, Devlin commission on Nyasaland 1959
• UK Observer, Rhodesian elections 1980 a Pro-Vice Chancellor, Oxford University 1968-80
• Editor, Dictionary of National Biography, 1949-80
• Deputy Lieutenant, Oxfordshire, 1964 >
• Chairman, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1966 >
• President, Oxford University Cricket Club, 1966-68
• Secretary, the Rhodes Trust 1951-80, and Warden of Rhodes House

Honorary fellowships and memberships:

• Officer, US Legion of Merit,1945
• Emeritus fellow of Balliol, 1980 >
• American Hospital Association 1975;
• Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, 1975
• Wolfson College Oxford 1981, Hon LLD;
• Waynesburg College, Pennsylvania, 1947,
• Univ of Windsor, Ontario, 1969, Hon LHD:
• Williams College, Massachusetts, 1965, Hon PhD;
• Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania 1966;
• Warwick, Hon D.Litt 1967:
• Hull, 1970:
• Mount Allison, New Brunswick, 1980;
• Liverpool, 1982, Hon D.Litt;
• Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1969
• Sheffield, 1981