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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 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.
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 ...
Location of Lake County in Ohio. This is a list of historic country estates in Lake County, Ohio built between the years 1895 and 1930. Around 1885 the city of Cleveland, Ohio was home to an estimated 70 millionaires.
Henry Overton Wills II ( 1800–1871), with his brother was a co-founder of W.D.& H.O. Wills. His son Henry Overton Wills III founded the creation of the University of Bristol and became its first Chancellor, and two of his other sons Sir Edward Payson Wills and Sir Frederick Wills became baronets. Another son, Sir Frank William Wills became a ...
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 ...
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Interior of the Cleveland Arcade. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cleveland, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register ...