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Frances Porter. 'Williams, William Leonard', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993, updated September 2003. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/129254/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).