ABSTRACT

He ascended to his Chair shortly after he acquired two grandchildren: Kirsti was born to Ederyn’s wife, and Merryn, her doctorate on Hardy long since tucked under her arm, had married a quiet physicist called John Hemp; David was born on 26 June 1974. His mother was then a tutor at the Open University, for substantial sections of whose work in English and Education Williams had become such a potent point of reference.