| dbo:abstract |
Peter Orchard Williams CBE FRCP (23 September 1925 − 25 July 2014) was a British physician, who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The son of Agnes (née Birkinshaw) and Robert Williams, he was born on 23 September 1925 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father, a botanist, was curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens. He read medicine at the University of Cambridge for two years, then spent four years at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He undertook National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps for three years, spending some time in Germany. on his return, he was employed from 1955 to 1960 by the Medical Research Council as a medical officer. Williams joined the Wellcome Trust in 1960, becoming director in 1965, and retiring from there in 1991. During that time, he managed a hundred-fold increase in the Trust's budget. Williams was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Birmingham (1989), University of Nottingham (1990). University of the West Indies (1991). University of Glasgow (1992), and University of Oxford (1993). He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1991 Birthday Honours. He was a founder member of The Hague Club, and of the . He was president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1991 to 1993. Williams died on 25 July 2014, aged 89, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. (en) |
| dbo:birthDate |
1925-09-23 (xsd:date) |
| dbo:birthName |
Peter Orchard Williams (en) |
| dbo:birthPlace |
dbr:Trinidad_and_Tobago dbr:Port_of_Spain |
| dbo:birthYear |
1925-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
| dbo:deathDate |
2014-07-25 (xsd:date) |
| dbo:deathPlace |
dbr:England dbr:Oxfordshire dbr:Woodstock,_Oxfordshire |
| dbo:deathYear |
2014-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
| dbo:employer |
dbr:Medical_Research_Council_(United_Kingdom) |
| dbo:wikiPageID |
54284332 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength |
4484 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID |
1112382319 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink |
dbr:Royal_Army_Medical_Corps dbr:Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Trinidad dbr:University_of_Birmingham dbr:University_of_Cambridge dbr:University_of_Glasgow dbr:University_of_Nottingham dbr:University_of_Oxford dbr:University_of_the_West_Indies dbc:1925_births dbc:Place_of_birth_missing dbc:Place_of_death_missing dbr:Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire dbr:Medical_Research_Council_(United_Kingdom) dbr:1991_Birthday_Honours dbr:England dbc:2014_deaths dbc:20th-century_British_medical_doctors dbc:Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire dbc:Fellows_of_the_Royal_College_of_Physicians dbc:Royal_Army_Medical_Corps_officers dbr:Trinidad_and_Tobago dbr:Wellcome_Trust dbc:People_from_Port_of_Spain dbr:Fellow_of_the_Royal_College_of_Physicians dbr:Oxfordshire dbr:The_Hague_Club dbc:20th-century_British_Army_personnel dbc:Presidents_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Tropical_Medicine_and_Hygiene dbr:Honorary_degree dbr:Port_of_Spain dbr:Woodstock,_Oxfordshire dbr:St_Mary's_Hospital_Medical_School dbr:Royal_Society_of_Tropical_Medicine_and_Hygiene dbr:Wellcome_Institute_for_the_History_of_Medicine dbr:National_Service_in_the_United_Kingdom dbr:Association_of_Medical_Research_Charities |
| dbp:birthDate |
1925-09-23 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:birthName |
Peter Orchard Williams (en) |
| dbp:birthPlace |
dbr:Trinidad_and_Tobago dbr:Port_of_Spain |
| dbp:deathDate |
2014-07-25 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:deathPlace |
dbr:England dbr:Oxfordshire dbr:Woodstock,_Oxfordshire |
| dbp:employer |
dbr:Medical_Research_Council_(United_Kingdom) |
| dbp:honorificSuffix |
dbr:Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire dbr:Fellow_of_the_Royal_College_of_Physicians |
| dbp:nationality |
British (en) |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate |
dbt:Authority_control dbt:Birth_date dbt:Infobox_person dbt:Post-nominals dbt:Reflist dbt:Use_British_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Death_date_and_age dbt:UK-med-bio-stub dbt:History_of_Modern_Biomedicine_Research_Group_ID |
| dcterms:subject |
dbc:1925_births dbc:Place_of_birth_missing dbc:Place_of_death_missing dbc:2014_deaths dbc:20th-century_British_medical_doctors dbc:Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire dbc:Fellows_of_the_Royal_College_of_Physicians dbc:Royal_Army_Medical_Corps_officers dbc:People_from_Port_of_Spain dbc:20th-century_British_Army_personnel dbc:Presidents_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Tropical_Medicine_and_Hygiene |
| schema:sameAs |
http://viaf.org/viaf/166699633 |
| rdf:type |
owl:Thing foaf:Person dbo:Person dul:NaturalPerson wikidata:Q19088 wikidata:Q215627 wikidata:Q5 wikidata:Q729 dbo:Animal dbo:Eukaryote dbo:Species schema:Person |
| rdfs:comment |
Peter Orchard Williams CBE FRCP (23 September 1925 − 25 July 2014) was a British physician, who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The son of Agnes (née Birkinshaw) and Robert Williams, he was born on 23 September 1925 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father, a botanist, was curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Williams joined the Wellcome Trust in 1960, becoming director in 1965, and retiring from there in 1991. During that time, he managed a hundred-fold increase in the Trust's budget. (en) |
| rdfs:label |
Peter Williams (physician) (en) |
| owl:sameAs |
http://viaf.org/viaf/166699633 http://d-nb.info/gnd/142844578 wikidata:Peter Williams (physician) http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/thes/p334370620 http://arz.dbpedia.org/resource/بيتر_اوركارد_ويليامز https://global.dbpedia.org/id/2KVNf |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom |
wikipedia-en:Peter_Williams_(physician)?oldid=1112382319&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf |
wikipedia-en:Peter_Williams_(physician) |
| is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of |
dbr:Peter_Williams |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of |
dbr:Peter_O._Williams dbr:Peter_Orchard_Williams |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of |
dbr:Bridget_Ogilvie dbr:Deaths_in_July_2014 dbr:1991_Birthday_Honours dbr:Peter_Williams dbr:A._Rupert_Hall dbr:History_of_Modern_Biomedicine_Research_Group dbr:Wellcome_Institute_for_the_History_of_Medicine dbr:Peter_O._Williams dbr:Peter_Orchard_Williams |
| is dbp:after of |
dbr:A._Rupert_Hall |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of |
wikipedia-en:Peter_Williams_(physician) |
