The Reverend David Williams F.G.S. (1792-1850) of Bleadon, and his collection of ichthyosaurs and a plesiosaur from the Lower Lias of Somerset

The Reverend David Williams F.G.S. (1792-1850) was, from 1820, rector (i.e. parson) of the parish of Bleadon, at the seaward end of the Mendip Hills southeast of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. He is best known as a keen geologist, collector and researcher in the Palaeozoic stratigraphy of the West Country of England and in the Quaternary bone caves of Somerset (Currant 2000; Woolrich 2004; Bromwich 2011; Benton 2012).