 Reverend Henry Frank Fulford Williams (1885-1966) served as a chaplain in Bengal from 1913 until 1935, and was chaplain at St. Lukes for part of his tenure.The East India Company set up a military station here due to its location on the bank of river Ganges at a junction with other rivers like the Son River from the south and the Ghaghara and Gandaki River from the north.Rivers were important transport routes before railways were built in India.