Sarah Brydges Willyams 1780(?) - 1863

Sarah Brydges Willyams was born and lived in Torquay. Like Benjamin Disraeli, she was a Christian of Jewish parents. A widow, she pursued a correspondence with Disraeli, eventually asking him to be the executor of her will. In exchange for this, she promised to leave him a substantial sum (what was eventaully around £30 000). He was also one of four men requested to act as trustees to Sarah's funds.

Benjamin went to visit her in the early 1850s, and they became close friends until her death. In her will she writes of her "admiration of his efforts to vindicate the race of Israel" (Blake, p.421). She was buried at Hughenden, in the plot next to Benjamin's.