 He was a Scholar of his college and took a Triple First in Classical Moderations (1908), Greats (1910), and Modern History (1911), having won the Gladstone Historical Essay in 1909.He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford for the period 1911–1918.Williams married Margaret, née Stewart, of Perthshire, on 23 August 1914; they had no children, and she died in 1958.