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'''Henry John Williams''' (8 February 1838 – 1 April 1919) was an English [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] priest and activist for [[humanitarianism]], [[animal rights]] and [[vegetarianism]]. He was the founder of the [[Order of the Golden Age]]; an international animal rights society.
== Biography ==
Henry John Williams was born on 8 February 1838 in [[Whatley, Mendip]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Descendants of Sydenham Williams of Herringstone |url=https://www.heraldry-online.org.uk/genealogy-online/sydenham_williams.html |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Heraldry Online}}</ref> He was the son of Margaret Sophia and Hamilton John Williams,<ref name=":3" /> an [[Anglican]] priest.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Preece |first=Rod |url=https://books.google.com/books?
Williams was married twice, first to Cecelia Frances D'Arblay Croft and then to a person, in July 1871, in [[Newport Pagnell]], whose name has not been recorded.<ref name=":3" />
At the age of 40, Williams was inspired by his brother to become a vegetarian.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=Howard|date=May 1919|title=Rev. Henry John Williams (1838-1919)|url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/obituaries/rev-henry-john-williams/|journal=The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review}}</ref> He later published the pamphlet ''A Plea for a Broken Law'', which made a case for vegetarianism from a theological point of view.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Williams|first=Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9ugCcZ13BMC|title=The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-252-07130-0|location=Champaign, Illinois|pages=384|language=en}}</ref> He founded an animal rights society, the [[Order of the Golden Age]] in 1881, it was constituted in 1882.<ref name=":2">{{Cite thesis|last=Calvert|first=Samantha Jane|title=Eden's Diet: Christianity and Vegetarianism 1809–2009|date=June 2012|publisher=University of Birmingham|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/18614303.pdf}}</ref> Due to a lack of funds, the organisation was inactive until 1895, when Williams, [[Sidney H. Beard]] and others met and discussed how to remedy its dormancy.<ref name=":2" /> Williams wrote for the order's journal, ''The Herald of the Golden Age''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=H. J.|date=January 1897|title=Dark Ages, Past & Present|url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/articles/dark-ages-past-present/|journal=The Herald of the Golden Age}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=H. J.|date=1900-12-15|title=A Call to the Christian Church|url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/herald_of_the_golden_age/herald_of_the_golden_age_v5_n12_dec_15_1900.pdf|journal=The Herald of the Golden Age|volume=5|issue=12|pages=143–144}}</ref>▼
▲At the age of 40, Williams was inspired by his brother Howard to become a vegetarian.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=Howard|date=May 1919|title=Rev. Henry John Williams (1838-1919)|url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/obituaries/rev-henry-john-williams/|journal=The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review}}</ref> He later published the pamphlet ''A Plea for a Broken Law'', which made a case for vegetarianism from a theological point of view.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Williams|first=Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9ugCcZ13BMC|title=The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-252-07130-0|location=Champaign, Illinois|pages=384|language=en}}</ref>
Williams was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of [[Kinross]],<ref>{{Cite journal|date=October 1897|title=Introduction – The Order of the Golden Age|url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/articles/introduction-the-order-of-the-golden-age/|journal=The Vegetarian Messenger|access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref> honorary president of the Scottish Vegetarian Society<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vegetarian Federal Union 1889-1911|url=https://ivu.org/history/vfu/1897-report-scottish.html|access-date=2020-07-01|website=International Vegetarian Union}}</ref> and a member of the [[Humanitarian League]]'s Humane Diet department.<ref name=":0" />
Williams died on 1 April 1919 in [[Aspley Guise]], at the age of 81;<ref name=":3" />
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