Henry Overton Wills III (22 December 1828 – 4 September 1911) of Kelston Knoll, near Bath in Somerset, was a prominent and wealthy member of the Bristol...
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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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Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III by his sons George and Henry Wills. Begun in 1915 and not opened until 1925, it is...
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Henry Overton Wills III was first Chancellor of the University of Bristol, and a member of the Wills tobacco family. Henry Overton Wills may also refer...
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of tobacco products. Henry Overton Wills II was born on 3 July 1800 in Bristol, the younger of the two sons of Henry Overton Wills I (1761–1826) by his...
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Medal of Honor recipient Henry Herbert Wills (1856–1922), businessman and philanthropist from Bristol Henry Overton Wills III (1828–1911), chancellor of...
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Henry Overton Wills III, first chancellor of the University of Bristol. A member of the wealthy Bristol tobacco-importing Wills family, Wills joined...
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with his brother Henry Herbert Wills, for the building of the Wills Memorial Building in memory of his father Henry Overton Wills III. Another brother...
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Bristol, and a member of the Wills tobacco family. He was the son of Henry Overton Wills III and Alice Hopkinson and was born in Clifton, Bristol. He was educated...
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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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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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Company, formed by the merger of W.D. & H.O. Wills (founded in Bristol by his grandfather Henry Overton Wills I (1761–1826)) with 12 other smaller UK tobacco...
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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 endow...
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Alfred Wills, Baronet of Blagdon, and a nephew of Henry Overton Wills III, Sir Frederick Wills Bt & Sir Frank William Wills Kt. In 1894, Wills married...
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of the Bristol tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills, in honour of their father, Henry Overton Wills III, benefactor and first Chancellor of the University...
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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 £100...
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that Asquith and his allies Haldane and Grey would refuse to serve unless Henry Campbell-Bannerman accepted a peerage, which would have left Asquith as...
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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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Chancellors: Henry Overton Wills III, 1909–1911 Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, 1912–1928 Sir Winston Churchill, 1929–1965 Henry Somerset, 10th...
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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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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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pp. 231–233. Wills 2002, pp. 35–37. Chernow 2004, pp. 571–74. Feldman 2017, pp. 239–240. Amar 2005, p. 6. Mount Vernon, Essay. Wills 2002, pp. 38–39...
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James III) Henry IX and I (31 January 1788 – 13 July 1807), Henry Benedict Stuart, also known as the Cardinal King. (Son of James III) Since Henry's death...
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Commandment Major-General Michael Willoughby General Sir Charles Wills Brigadier John Howard German Wills (1899— ) General Sir Thomas Willshire, Bart. Brigadier...
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Arquette, Kari Wührer, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E. Doug, Scott Terra, Rick Overton, Leon Rippy, Matt Czuchry, Jay Arlen Jones, Eileen Ryan, Riley Smith, Tom...
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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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1998–99 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bristol 1999–2003 Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics, University of Bristol 2000–03 Provost of...
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during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention...
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352 Peterson, 2002, pp. 43–44. Wood, 2010, p. 293. Bailey, 2007, p. 216. Wills, 2002, pp. 50–51. Peterson, 2002, p. 44. Meacham, 2012, p. 387. Meacham...
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during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention...
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