David Williams
Contributions
- Lessons to a Young Prince, on the Present Disposition in Europe to a General Revolution has translation author
- Letters on political liberty. Addressed to a member of the English House of Commons, on his being chosen into the Committee of an Associating County has translation author
- Observations on the late constitution of France with a view to the formation of a new constitution has translation author
- Royal Recollections on a Tour to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, and Places Adjacent, in the Year 1788 has translation author
Knows
- John Almon bookseller journalist pamphleteer publisher
- Jean Henri Bancal des Issarts freemason jurist politician
- Joel Barlow diplomat entrepreneur freemason journalist poet politician translator writer
- Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville abolitionist bookseller entrepreneur freemason pamphleteer politician publisher translator writer
- Edmund Burke freemason philosopher politician writer
- Thomas Christie entrepreneur physician translator writer
- George Dyer writer
- Benjamin Franklin freemason politician publisher writer
- William Godwin journalist novelist philosopher writer
- Henri Grégoire civil servant cleric politician writer
- Sophie de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet salonnière translator writer
- William Hodgson politician publisher translator writer
- Thomas Holcroft journalist novelist playwright poet translator
- John Horne Tooke cleric journalist linguist politician writer
- François-Xavier Lanthenas abolitionist civil servant physician politician translator writer
- Richard Lee bookseller pamphleteer poet publisher translator
- James Mackintosh historian journalist jurist philosopher physician politician professor writer
- Robert Merry poet translator writer
- John Oswald military poet revolutionary translator writer
- Thomas Paine journalist philosopher revolutionary writer
- Richard Phillips bookseller entrepreneur publisher teacher writer
- William Pitt the Younger politician
- James Ridgway bookseller publisher
- Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière civil servant politician scientist writer
- Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière revolutionary salonnière writer
- John Hurford Stone entrepreneur publisher writer
- Henry Delahoy Symonds bookseller publisher
- Mary Wollstonecraft novelist philosopher translator traveller writer
Member of
- De Condorcet, Sophie de Grouchy Salon salon
- Girondists political organisation
- Royal Literary Fund charitable organization
Notes
Founded the Club of Thirteen, or Wednesday Society, in the 1770s, a radical intellectual club supporting American Independence. Members included Benjamin Franklin, William Hodgson and Thomas Day.
Founded the (Royal) Literary Fund.