19-1851: Mark Williams may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] Mark Williams (writer) (born 1951), academic, writer, critic, poet Mark Williams (singer) (born 1954), New Zealand singer Mark Williams (album) Mark Williams (actor) (born 1959), British actor and comedian Mark Williams (organist) (born 1978), Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford Mark Williams (radio host) , American journalist and radio personality Mark "Slave" Williams , hip hop MC, television presenter Mark Williams (game designer) , original artist at Hero Games Mark Williams ( Holby City ) , fictional character in Holby City Mark Williams (filmmaker) , American producer, director and writer Mark Williams (music producer) , American music producer and songwriter Sports [ edit ] Football [ edit ] Mark Williams (Australian footballer, born 1957) , with North Melbourne and Footscray Mark Williams (Australian footballer, born 1958) , with Port Adelaide, Brisbane, Collingwood, former coach of Port Adelaide Mark Williams (Australian footballer, born 1964) , with Carlton and Footscray, former coach of Sandringham Mark Williams (Australian footballer, born 1983) , with Hawthorn and Essendon Mark Williams (American football) (born 1971), American football player Mark Williams (South African footballer) (born 1966), South African former international footballer Mark Williams (footballer, born 1970) , Northern Ireland former international footballer Mark Williams (footballer, born 1978) , English footballer for Rochdale and Rotherham United Mark Williams (footballer, born 1981) , English footballer who played as
38-623: A deputy headteacher in Llangors School, Powys in 2000. During this period, Williams fought Monmouth at the 1997 general election , finishing third. In February 2000, after a spell as President of Ceredigion Liberal Democrats , Williams was selected to fight the Ceredigion seat in the by-election caused by the resignation of Cynog Dafis . In that by-election, the Liberal Democrats rose back into second place, and in
57-729: A major anthology of New Zealand literature. Mark Williams (politician) Mark Fraser Williams (born 24 March 1966) is a British politician who served as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats from 2016 to 2017. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ceredigion constituency , between 2005 and 2017 . He sat on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee , and in 2006 he became a Shadow Minister for Wales under Menzies Campbell . Williams
76-1344: A midfielder Mark Williams (Scottish footballer) (born 1995), Scottish footballer Other sports [ edit ] Mark Williams (baseball) (born 1953), American former Major League Baseball player Mark Williams (cricketer, born 1955) , English cricketer Mark Williams (rugby union) (born 1961), rugby player for the U.S. national rugby team Mark Williams (snooker player) (born 1975), Welsh professional snooker player Mark Williams (volleyball) (born 1979), Australian volleyball player Mark Williams (bowls) , Welsh former world bowls champion Mark Williams (basketball) (born 2001), American basketball player Other [ edit ] Mark Williams (Colorado politician) (born 1962) Mark Williams (politician) (born 1966), British Member of Parliament and Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Mark W. Williams (1925–2013), US Army Ranger and participant in D-Day Mark London Williams (born 1959), American author and journalist Mark T. Williams (born 1963), educator, author and risk management expert J. Mark G. Williams , academic and author specializing in depression and suicide Mark Williams (engineer) , British engineer See also [ edit ] Mark Williams Company ,
95-620: A small software company that created Coherent Marc Williams (born 1988), Welsh footballer Marcus Williams (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mark Williams . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Williams&oldid=1207745700 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
114-633: Is a graduate of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Plymouth , and is now deputy head of a school in Llangorse near Brecon . Mark Williams was born in Hertfordshire on 24 March 1966. His mother worked as a classroom assistant , and his father ran a printing business ; he has two older sisters. He attended the local village primary school and then Richard Hale Secondary School , Hertford , from where he moved on to
133-533: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mark Williams (writer) Clifton Mark Williams (born 12 October 1951) is a New Zealand poet, writer, academic, critic, editor of contemporary New Zealand literature. He holds a MA (Hons) from the University of Auckland and a Ph.D (1983) from the University of British Columbia. He is emeritus Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington . He
152-720: Is one of the first academics to focus his publications predominantly on contemporary New Zealand writing. His work is also informed by a strong international context which has enabled him to argue in Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists (1990) against the "violent dualities" of New Zealand culture and the "binary habits of New Zealand criticism" and advocate instead independence, difference, continuities, and "complex wholeness". In November 2012, with his wife and fellow Victoria academic, Jane Stafford , Williams published
171-736: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Canadian Literature . In 2009 he was the convenor of the judging panel for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards . He was one of the editors of The World Novel to 1950 , a volume of Oxford University Press series, The History of the Novel in English . in 2019 he was engaged in writing a novel based on his youthful experience of the Christadelphian religion. Williams
190-681: The House of Lords , but was determined to stay in Ceredigion and spent half the week and all of the Parliamentary holidays as assistant to Howells in Ceredigion, until he lost the seat at the 1992 general election . Williams then returned to student life at the teacher training college in Exmouth , part of the University of Plymouth . After securing this qualification, he taught in primary schools in Penzance and Barnstaple , before becoming
209-460: The University of British Columbia (1983) and lectured at Auckland University and Waikato University before moving to the University of Canterbury where he was a lecturer and associate professor. He joined the English faculty at Victoria University of Wellington in 2008 and became Professor of English there. Williams' research focused on New Zealand and modern literature. He was on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals, including
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#1732798345234228-645: The University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1984 to study politics. It was at school during the days of the SDP-Liberal Alliance that he become involved in Liberal politics, later saying: Within a week of arriving in Aberystwyth , Williams became secretary of the student group and had met local Liberal MP Geraint Howells . After graduating, he became a part-time researcher to the Liberal peers in
247-441: The general election of 2001 consolidated that by coming second, being just 3,944 votes behind Plaid Cymru . In May 2005, 13 years after Howells had been defeated, the Liberal Democrats regained Ceredigion, with Williams as their candidate, by a very narrow majority of 219 votes. Williams described his victory as an "amazing result", while the then Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, Lembit Öpik , said that "Mark Williams has pulled off
266-692: The next general election , falling to third place behind Plaid Cymru and the Conservatives. Following this, he paid tribute to Lake, and then subsequently announced that he would not stand for parliament again. In December 2022 Williams was among 32 individuals and entities banned from entering Iran by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for views which the Iranian regime claim “promote terrorism and violence”. Responding to this Williams said: “I have always been steadfast in my support for
285-507: The 2005–2010 Parliament. He called for Saint David's Day to be made a public holiday in Wales. He proposed a private member's bill with the backing of a leading charity to update child protection legislation. It would amend the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, because this only covers physical harm, and not psychological neglect. The bill is backed by Action for Children . Williams
304-503: The psyche of Catholic guilt ", Williams was captivated by "those gothic images and rigid doctrines". "An absolute scale of values and vision is insinuated into one's mind" which may account "for the number of Catholics who become writers or artists". While at St Peter's College, Williams started writing poetry and while there he entered a poetry contest judged by old boy poet Sam Hunt who wrote to him in response to his entry. Williams returned to New Zealand from his doctoral studies at
323-578: The result of the night in Ceredigion". Williams was the first non-Welsh-speaking Member of Parliament to represent the constituency since the widening of the electoral franchise in 1867. In 2010, he substantially increased his majority, winning just over 50% of the vote; this was the first time any candidate had won more than 50% of the vote in Ceredigion since 1959. Williams sat on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee between 2005 and 2017, and held various shadow ministerial roles in
342-575: Was defeated in the 2017 general election by Ben Lake of Plaid Cymru , whose majority of 104 made the seat one of the most marginal in the country. The result left the Liberal Democrat Party without an MP in Wales, a situation which had not existed since the founding of the Liberal Party in 1859. He resigned as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats shortly after his defeat. Williams unsuccessfully re-contested Ceredigion in
361-575: Was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland . Williams has written about his reaction to St Peter's after his Christadelphian background. "To me, on coming from a radically iconoclastic Protestant sect, the holy pictures and statues the Christian Brothers had crammed on every wall seemed utterly bizarre". "At midday we all knelt for the Angelus . Mass involved long periods of kneeling". Although he feels he escaped "the deep imprinting on
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