D. D Capers William, an American Methodist clergyman, born in St. Thomas's parish, S. C, Jan. 26, 1790, died at Anderson, S. C, Jan. 29, 1855. In 1808 he was received into the South Carolina conference, filling some of the most important stations in its bounds. In 1821 he was appointed missionary to the Indians in western Georgia, and travelled throughout the state pleading the cause of missions. The year following he established a mission among the Creek Indians on Flint river. In 1825 he was stationed in Charleston, where he remained as preacher in charge and presiding elder for six years. For a part of this time he edited the " Wesley an Journal," which was subsequently merged in the "Zion's Herald," and now bears the name of the "Christian Advocate and Journal" in New York. In 1828 he was chosen as representative to the Wesleyan Conference in England. In 1835 he was elected professor of the evidences of Christianity in the university of South Carolina, a post which he afterward resigned to take charge of the "'southern Christian Advocate," which he edited for five years.

At the first general conference of the M. E. church, South, he was elected and consecrated bishop (1846), which office he filled until his death.