Early in his career, Charles Williams shared an office with friend and colleague Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, who would later become Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of Great Britain.
They had a standing tradition of always sending out for two beers with payment alternating between each man.
Many years later, Williams was in the lobby of the House of Lords.
Lord Salisbury approached him with outstretched hand and asked, "By the way, Mr. Williams, whose turn is it to stand the beer?"

In 1884, the steamer carrying Williams and colleague Frederic Villiers of The Graphic overturned in the Nile River.
Their rescue led Williams to later commission a unique ivory and gold mitre for the Bishop of London as a thank-offering to God for his safe return from Khartoum.

In Rudyard Kipling's play, The Light that Failed, the character of Mr. Nilghai, the war correspondent, was based on Charles Williams.

Williams received a personal invitation from King Edward VII to attend the funeral of his mother, Queen Victoria.

Both of Williams' sons became journalists.
Frederick George H. Williams was a noted parliamentary reporter, writer, and historian in Canada.
Francis Austin Ward Williams practiced journalism in Sydney, Australia.
Early in his career, Charles Williams shared an office with friend and colleague Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, who would later become Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of Great Britain. They had a standing tradition of always sending out for two beers with payment alternating between each man. Many years later, Williams was in the lobby of the House of Lords. Lord Salisbury approached him with outstretched hand and asked, "By the way, Mr. Williams, whose turn is it to stand the beer?"
In 1884, the steamer carrying Williams and colleague Frederic Villiers of The Graphic overturned in the Nile River. Their rescue led Williams to later commission a unique ivory and gold mitre for the Bishop of London as a thank-offering to God for his safe return from Khartoum.
In Rudyard Kipling's play, The Light that Failed, the character of Mr. Nilghai, the war correspondent, was based on Charles Williams.
Williams received a personal invitation from King Edward VII to attend the funeral of his mother, Queen Victoria.
Both of Williams' sons became journalists. Frederick George H. Williams was a noted parliamentary reporter, writer, and historian in Canada. Francis Austin Ward Williams practiced journalism in Sydney, Australia.
Charles Frederick Williams