Preceded by Michael McCrum Name David Tudor | Died September 6, 2009 | |
Chancellor HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Born 22 October 1930 ( 1930-10-22 ) Alma mater Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen
Emmanuel College, Cambridge Education Queen Elizabeth High School, Carmarthen, Emmanuel College, Cambridge | ||
Succeeded by Alec Broers, Baron Broers | ||
Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, QC, DL (22 October 1930 – 6 September 2009), was a barrister and the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1989–1996.
He was first educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, and was a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (in History and Law). He was a Harkness Fellow at Berkeley and Harvard between 1956 and 1958. He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from Keble College, Oxford in 1967 and was subsequently promoted to Reader in Public Law 1976-1980, before being appointed Rouse Ball Professor of English Law 1983-1992 and elected President of Wolfson College, Cambridge 1980-1992.
In 1989 he was appointed the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 1991 to 1994. In 2007 he was appointed as the chancellor of Swansea University.
Sir David had been awarded honorary degrees by a dozen institutions, including an honorary LLD from the University of Cambridge and a Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Western Ontario.
Sir David died from cancer on 6 September 2009 at the age of 78.
In 2016, the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law named its building and a Chair in Public Law after him.