WILLIAMS, Alexander, R.H.A., 1891. Educ.: Drogheda Grammar School; studied for the musical profession; was a member of the Dublin Glee and Madrigal Union Quintet, 1875; afterwards soloist in the Choirs of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, Trinity College Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, and St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; studied drawing in the Art Schools of the Royal Dublin Society; Painter in Oil and Water Colour; A.R.H.A., 1883; self taught; has devoted himself to the delineation of Irish Landscape, Lake and Sea-Coast Scenery. He has held several successful one-man shows of Irish Scenery in Bond Street; also in Liverpool Manchester, and Bristol. In 1897 he was commissioned by the Corporation of Dublin to advise and superintend the cleaning and restoration of the valuable historical collection of Portraits in the City Hall and Mansion House. Messrs. Blackie and Son commissioned the artist to paint 48 pictures to illustrate their four published vols, of "Beautiful Ireland," letterpress by Stephen Gwynn; in Canada there is an increasing demand for his pictures of Irish Scenery, and they have been exhibited in St. John, N.B., Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Prince Albert, Fort William and Vancouver. In the United States an Exhibition was held in Detroit in 1916. Recn.: the study of entomology and ornithology; has written numerous articles on bird life; b. Co. Monaghan, Ireland; m. Kate, youngest dau. of late George Gray, Vicar-Choral of Westminster Abbey, Armagh, and St. Patrick's Cathedrals, and has issue one dau. Res.: 4 Hatch Street, Dublin; Bleanaskill Lodge, Achill Island.