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Henry Overton Wills II
the tomb of Henry Overton Wills II at Arnos Vale Cemetery

Henry Overton Wills II (3 July 1800 – 23 November 1871) of Ashley House,[1] in Bristol, England, was a tobacco merchant who in 1830 together with his elder brother William Day Wills co-founded W.D. & H.O. Wills, a company which (building on the successful tobacco business established by their father) by the late 1800s had become Britain's largest importer of tobacco and manufacturer of tobacco products.

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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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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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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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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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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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Kingsclere

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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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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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James Madison

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Kelston Knoll

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