Cecil Williams

Cecil Beaumont "Monty" Williams OBE (8 March 1926 – 20 September 1998) was a Barbadian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Barbados from 1948 to 1956. He later served as a Barbadian high commissioner and ambassador.

Education Cecil Williams was born in St Michael Parish, Barbados, in a family of 10 children. He went to school at Harrison College in Bridgetown, and won scholarships to Codrington College in Barbados and Durham University in England. He taught at Harrison College before being awarded a scholarship to study at New College, Oxford. but the younger spinners Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine were so successful in the Tests, taking 59 wickets between them, that Williams was unable to force his way into the Test team. Wisden did note, however, that he showed "much promise". He achieved his best first-class bowling figures in the match against MCC at Lord's, when he took 7 for 55 in the second innings.

He captained Barbados in two first-class matches against E. W. Swanton's XI in 1955–56, scoring 133 in the second match. He played for a West Indies XI against E. W. Swanton's XI in the last match of the tour.