Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708 - 1759), diplomatist and satirist, son of John Hanbury, a Welsh ironmaster, assumed the name of Williams on succeeding to an estate, entered Parliament as a supporter of Walpole, held many diplomatic posts, and was a brilliant wit with a great contemporary reputation for lively and biting satires and lampoons.
SIR CHARLESHANBURYWILLIAMS (1708-1759), English diplomatist and author, was a son of Major John Hanbury (1664-1734), of Pontypool, Monmouthshire, and a scion of an ancient Worcestershire family.
His father John Hanbury was a wealthy iron-master and member of parliament, who inherited another fortune from his friend CharlesWilliams of Caerleon, his son's godfather, with which he bought the Coldbrook estate, Monmouthshire.
He had two daughters, the elder of whom married William Capel, 4th earl of Essex, and was the mother of the 5th earl.
Williams (1708 - 1759) published most of his verse as separate poems or ballads, and the first collected of the poems was in 1763 and of the odes in 1768.
Joseph Williams (1692 - 1755) was with Benjamin Fawcett (1715 - 1780), who edited this volume, one of a group of Presbyterian ministers sympathetic to the views of Philip Doddridge and George Whitefield.
Although it consists, as the title-page states, of extracts, the author notes that some of the unnumbered paragraphs are thoughts newly added, which no author can dispense with, when he makes some repetitions of the same subject. The four plates were made especially for this edition and are keyed to numbers in the text.
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