Sir Edgar Williams; Adviser to Rhodes Scholars

Sir Edgar Williams, 82, adviser to Rhodes scholars at Oxford University for nearly three decades. Williams, who served as warden of Rhodes House from 1952 to 1980, had now-President Bill Clinton among his charges in 1968 and 1969. During World War II he served on the British intelligence staff in Cairo and so impressed Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery that the leader named Williams his chief of intelligence. Montgomery, with Williams funneling information, commanded the British 8th Army, which won the battle of Alamein and drove the Germans 2,000 miles across Africa into Tunisia. On June 26 in Oxford, England.