Charles T. Williams III ’63

C.T. died May 9, 2026, at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, surrounded by family, after a brief illness.  

A native of Baltimore, he came to us from St. Paul’s School. At Princeton, where his father was in the Class of 1928, he majored in history and belonged to Key and Seal. 

C.T. earned an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 1965. He devoted his professional life to investment banking, corporate finance, and business management, and his personal life to family and his love of horses and riding. 

After beginning as a securities analyst on Wall Street, he returned in 1974 to Baltimore and joined the family investment banking firm, C.T. Williams & Co., founded by his grandfather in 1923. He sold the firm’s securities brokerage business to Legg Mason in 1979 but continued as president of the company, operating as a private investment firm. He progressed to co-found Kenilworth Holdings and subsequently served as an officer and director of various subsidiary businesses in Virginia. 

C.T. and his wife, Margaret, settled in Jarrettsville, Md. They had a working farm with several horses. C.T. was a member of the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club, a foxhunting and steeplechase club, established in the 1800, for 50 years.  

C.T. is survived by Margaret; daughters Virginia W. Curry and H. Ashton Williams; son Charles IV; and one grandchild.