New Zealand's Greatest Doctor:
Ulric Williams of Wanganui
A Surgeon who became a Naturopath
By Brenda Sampson
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION relating to Dr Ulric G Williams
He was descended from Henry Williams who came to New Zealandf as a missionary in 1823. Henry Williams was a dynamic man who influenced the Maori chiefs to relinquish their habits of inter-tribal warfare, slaughter, cannibalism, and slavery of women. He had the courage to stand (literally) between two tribes, armed and at war, and persuade them successfully to make peace.
Ulric's parents were Alfred Owen Williams and Alice Gaster (b. 12.11.1850) They married 27.12.1881
Children of Alfred and Alice Williams
Wilfred Owen Gaster Williams b 19.9.1882 at Nelson Olive Gaster Williams b 18.5.1884 at Gisborne Keith Gaster Williams b 23.7.1885 at Putiki near Wanganui Ulric Gaster Williams b 22.5.1890 at Putiki near Wanganui Garth Gaster Williams b 15.3.1894 at Putiki near Wanganui
Ulric Gaster Williams married Mary May Thurling. Their son Owen Neville Williams (known as Peter) was born 2.6.1914.
The following information came from the Wanganui Collegiate School Register, ed. 4, 1854 to 1963, published by the Old Boys Association, 1964.
Ulric Gaster Williams, 45 Wicksteed Street, Wanganui Prefect 1907/09 Rugby XV 1907/08 Cricket XI 1907/09 Educated at Cambridge & Edinburgh Universities, MB ChB Captain NZ Medical Corps in World War I Health consultant, medical practitioner and author of "Hints on Healthy Living".
