Allan Williams

Allan Richard Williams (born 17 March 1930) is a former businessman and promoter and the original booking agent and first manager of The Beatles. He personally drove the van to take the young band to Hamburg, Germany in 1960, where they gained the vital show business experience that led to their emergence on the world stage.

Ancestry and Early Life

Williams is the son of Richard Edward Williams, a local council building inspector and Annie Cheetham, tracing part of his ancestry back to Owen Williams (Owain Gwyrfai), a Caernarfonshire millwright, poet and pioneer lexicographer in the Welsh language. His mother died when he was very young and his father remarried to Millie Twigg, the family living in Litherland and being completed by Williams' half-sister Olwyn b. 1937 and half-brother Graham b. 1938. In his mid teens he left home to sing with Joe Loss in the Isle of Man. Later he sang with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and even tried to sell Blackpool rock in Spain.

Liverpool Music Scene & The Beatles in Hamburg

Allan Williams (politician)

Louis Allan Williams (June 22, 1922 – February 28, 2011) was the Attorney-General of British Columbia from 1979 to 1983. He also held the posts of labour minister and minister responsible for native affairs. Williams died on February 28, 2011 following a long illness.

Williams was born in Glenavon, Saskatchewan and raised in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. He moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1936. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Williams later studied law at the University of British Columbia and was called to the British Columbia bar in 1950. He served six years on the West Vancouver Municipal Parks and Recreation Commission and was elected to the municipal council for West Vancouver in 1965. After leaving provincial politics, he returned to the practice of law. Williams served again on West Vancouver council from 1993 to 2002.

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