Aneurin Williams (b. Merthyr Tydfil 11 October 1859; d. Hindhead 20 January 1924) was a British Liberal Party politician.
He was MP for Plymouth (UK Parliament constituency) between the two general elections of 1910, and North West Durham (UK Parliament constituency) from 1914 to 1918, and Consett (UK Parliament constituency) from 1918 to 1922.
In September 1915, Williams, along with Lord Bryce, attempted to publicize the Armenian genocide. In a public letter published in The New York Times, Bryce wrote that he agreed with Williams that "the civilized world ... ought to know" about the Ottoman Turks' "plan of extirpating Christianity by killing off the Christians of the Armenian race". This letter estimated that 250,000 Armenians had escaped from the Ottoman Empire, while "perhaps 500,00 have been slaughtered or deported". A series of speeches in Parliament by Williams, Lord Robert Cecil, and T. P. O'Connor about the Armenian genocide were later published as a pamphlet entitled The Armenian Question.
He was the great-grandson of Iolo Morgannwg, founder of the Gorsedd.
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