Henry Overton Wills II (3 July 1800 – 23 November 1871) of Ashley House, in Bristol, England, was a tobacco merchant who in 1830 together with his elder...
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Henry Overton Wills I (2 March 1761 – 1826) was a British merchant who founded the firm of W.D. & H.O. Wills in Bristol, England, which eventually became...
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tobacco products. William Day Wills was born on 6 June 1797 in Bristol the elder of the two sons of Henry Overton Wills I (1761-1826) by his wife Ann...
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also refer to: Henry Overton Wills I (1761–1826), British tobacco merchant, and a member of the Wills tobacco family Henry Overton Wills II (1800–1871),...
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and Medal of Honor recipient Henry Herbert Wills (1856–1922), businessman and philanthropist from Bristol Henry Overton Wills III (1828–1911), chancellor...
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the 18 children of Henry Overton Wills II (1800–1871) by his first wife Isabella Board. He was a first-cousin of William Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke...
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Annie, Lady Wills, died in 1910. Sir Frederick's third son was Frederick Noel Hamilton Wills. He was a brother of Henry Overton Wills III, Sir Edward...
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Alfred Wills and Henry Herbert Wills, the magnates of the Bristol tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills, in honour of their father, Henry Overton Wills III...
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Bristol. Frank Wills was born on 17 August 1852 in Bristol into a large family, as the fifth of seven children born to Henry Overton Wills II and his second...
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Arnos Vale Cemetery (category Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Bristol)
William Day Wills, industrialist and tobacco manufacturer Henry Overton Wills II, industrialist and tobacco manufacturer Sir Frank William Wills, architect...
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empire, W. D. & H. O. Wills and later Imperial Tobacco, enabled Henry Overton Wills III to fund the university's foundation in 1908 with a pledge of...
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Ernest Salter Wills Bt, who was a member of the well-known Wills tobacco dynasty founded by Henry Overton Wills I as W.D. & H.O. Wills Ltd, in 1787. Sir...
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Cotham Church (category Grade II* listed churches in Bristol)
his family's connection with William Day Wills of the tobacco firm W. D. & H. O. Wills. Henry Overton Wills II, was Principal Deacon of the chapel during...
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January 1863 – 31 January 1941), known as G. H. Leonard, was the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol from 1905...
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appointed Reader in 1951, Melville Wills Professor in 1954 and Henry Overton Wills Professor and Director of the H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory in 1969. He...
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N. G. L. Hammond (category British Army personnel of World War II)
headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol and in 1962 was appointed Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at Bristol University, a post which he held until...
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Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. In 1964 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor and Head of the Mathematics Faculty. From 1957 to 1960...
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Melville Wills Professor in Theoretical Physics.[citation needed] In 1948 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics and Director of the Henry Herbert...
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pp. 231–233. Wills 2002, pp. 35–37. Chernow 2004, pp. 571–574. Feldman 2017, pp. 239–240. Amar 2005, p. 6. Mount Vernon, Essay. Wills 2002, pp. 38–39...
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George Wills, in memory of his brother Henry Herbert Wills who originally presented the site to the university – both of whom were sons of Henry Overton Wills...
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strengths. In 1908, gifts from the Fry and Wills families, particularly £100,000 from Henry Overton Wills III (£6m in today's money), were provided to...
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the son of Henry Waite of Wymondham, Leicestershire; but some royalist sources said he was the son of an alehouse keeper in Market Overton in Rutland...
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Jacobitism (category James II of England)
97–98. Yates 2014, pp. 37–38. Monod 1993, p. 134. Szechi 1994, pp. 18–19. Overton 1902, pp. 467–496. Szechi 1994, p. 19. Szechi 1994, p. 77. McCann 1963...
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Kelston Knoll (category Grade II listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset)
August 1890, in her 93rd year. Henry Overton Wills III, of the family who owned the tobacco manufacturers W.D. & H.O. Wills, purchased the house in 1895...
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Park House stables then owned by Captain Arnold Stancomb Wills (1877–1961), of W.D. & H.O. Wills. (Brother of Frank Butters). Lawrence Lee (1909–2011),...
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Honourable Henry Ernest Christopher Willoughby Major-General Michael Willoughby General Sir Charles Wills Brigadier John Howard German Wills (1899— ) General...
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"Parishes: Hodnell, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Overton, Mark (18 April 1996). Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation...
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Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow Mark Overton, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter 8...
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Table and Index of the Statutes: 1 George II (1727-1728) Pickering, Danby, ed. (1765). "Anno primo Georgii II". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 15: From the...
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Friedrich Nietzsche (section Will to power)
characterisation of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such...
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