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The Wills Memorial Geology Library Wills Memorial Building, front face Great George in the tower of the Wills Memorial Building Wills Memorial Building interior. The Wills Memorial Building was commissioned in 1912 by George 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, benefactor and ...
The name Wills Hall reflects the university's connection with the Wills family. The fortune made by their famous tobacco 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 £100,000 and he financed many of its finest buildings, such as the Wills Memorial Building.
English: Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University. Bristol University was founded in 1909, largely at his own personal expense, by Henry Overton Wills III (22 December 1828 – 4 September 1911) of Kelston Knoll, near Bath in Somerset, a prominent and wealthy member of the Bristol tobacco manufacturing family of Wills which founded the firm of W. D. & H. O. Wills.
The University of Bristol will, however, remove a dolphin emblem of slave trader Edward Colston from its logo Bristol University to keep building names linked to slave traders but Colston emblem ...
He also funded the building of the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory situated in Royal Fort Gardens. [2] With his brother Sir George Alfred Wills Bt, he was responsible for the building of the Wills Memorial Building, a landmark building of Bristol University, in memory of his father. [3] He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset for 1910. [4]
Sir George Herbert Oatley FRIBA (3 January 1863 – 12 May 1950) was an English architect noted for his work in Bristol, especially the gothic Wills Memorial Building. He was knighted for public service in 1925.
A Bristol community centre which boasts early Banksy artworks on its walls has been put up for sale by its owners. The George Wills Memorial Hall, in Barton Hill, known locally as The Dug Out, has ...
The cathedral-like Wills Memorial Building in Bristol, built in memory of Henry Overton Wills III by his two eldest sons. 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 tobacco manufacturing family of Wills which founded the firm of W. D. & H. O. Wills.