Hugh Williams (c.1694 – January 1742), of Chester, was a Welsh Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1725 to 1734. Williams was the eldest son of John Williams, of Chester and Glascoed, and his wife Catherine Owen, daughter of Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd Baronet MP, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire. He was grandson of Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford on 3 June 1712, entered Gray's Inn on 10 February 1713, and was called to the bar in 1718. He married firstly Ursula Bridgeman, daughter of Sir John Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet, and secondly Susannah Norris, daughter of , but had no children by either. He succeeded to his father's estates of Bridge House, Chester, Bodelwyddan, Flints. and Nantanog, Anglesey.