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Williams (SIR GEORGE founder)

SIR GEORGE, founder of the Young Men's Christian Association; born in Dulverton, Somersetshire, England, Oct. 11, 1821. In 1841 he went to London; gathered together the young men employed in the same establishment as himself, and on June 12, 1844, organized, with 12 of them, a band called the "Young Men's Christian Association," which was designed to be "a society for improving the spiritual condition of young men engaged in the drapery and other trades." He was the first treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was always devoted to its interests. He was knighted in 1894. He died Nov. 6, 1905.