Glyndwr Williams

For Welsh footballer, seeGlyn Williams (footballer).

Glyndwr Williams(1932–24 January 2022) was a professor of history atQueen Mary, University of Londonsince 1974, specialising in the history of exploration and the history of Europe overseas. He was appointed a professor emeritus of theUniversity of Londonin 1997.

Academic career

Williams earned his bachelor's degree and PhD at theUniversity of London.He became reader in history atQueen Mary College, Londonand was then promoted to professor. He served as general editor of theHudson's Bay Record Societyand he has been president and trustee of theHakluyt Society.

He died 24 January 2022. He was survived by his wife and fellow maritime historian,Sarah R. Palmer,and their two children.

Awards and honours

• TheCaird Medalof theNational Maritime Museum
• Hon. D.Litt. fromLa Trobe University
• National Outdoor Book Award(Honorable Mention, History/Biography category), forArctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage,2009

Published works

• Alan Frostand Jane Samson, eds.,Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams,(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999), pp. 271–275, contains a bibliography of "The Works of Glyndwr Williams" between 1959 and 1998.

Additional works since 1997 include:

• The Great South Sea(1997)
• The Prize of all the Oceans(1999)
• Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason(2002)
• Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers: British Encounters and Enterprise in the Pacific, 1670-1800(2005)
• The Death of Captain Cook: A hero made and unmade(2008)
• Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage(2009)
• Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin(2013)

Sources

• Contemporary Authors
• Alan Frostand Jane Samson, eds.,Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams,(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999)