 Their son William Owen Williams FRSE (1860–1911) was also a veterinarian and worked with his father at the Elm Row college.Following his father's death the college lost momentum and in 1904 William Owen Williams moved to Liverpool to set up a new veterinary college, being officially Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at Liverpool University.Williams was one of twenty "shadow portraits" created in 2005 of the various Dick Vet Principals.