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Daughter of Augusta Le Poer Trench and William Henry Priestley, Chaplain of the English Church, Nice.

Sarah Jane Williams was born at Stroud on 24 August 1828, the daughter of the Rev. John Williams, DD, rector of Woodchester, Glos., from 1833 to his death in 1857. She married Edward Housman, a solicitor, at Woodchester, on 17 June 1858. She died at Bromsgrove on 26 March 1871, and was buried at Colshill.

Created a baronet, 2 Jan. 1813

Edwards became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1811 (DBIBH). DBIBH identifies him as the writer (with George Don) of the article on Botany in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1844, but it seems possible that this may have been Thomas Edwards of Banff (1814-1886).