Williams, John

mi ionary and martyr, born near London; brought up an ironmonger; offered his services to the London Mi ionary Society; was sent out in 1816 to the Society Islands; laboured with conspicuous succe among the natives; came home in 1834, and after four years returned, but was murdered at Erromango in the New He brides, and his body eaten by the cannibals (1796-1839).