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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.
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 ...
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 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.
Henry Overton Wills III, of the family who owned the tobacco manufacturers W.D. & H.O. Wills, purchased the house in 1895. [7] In 1911, after his death, his estate was valued at two million pounds. [8] The house was subsequently owned by Walter Combermere Lee Floyd, who had been Deputy Consulting Engineer to the Government of India for Railways.
Henry Wills (writer) (born 1930), British journalist, photographer and writer on local history and archaeology; Henry Wills (Medal of Honor) (1842–?), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient; Henry Herbert Wills (1856–1922), businessman and philanthropist from Bristol; Henry Overton Wills III (1828–1911), chancellor of the ...
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 ...
In 1805 the family name became Leyborne Popham, under whom much of the house was refurbished in 1810. The Leyborne Popham family owned the estate until 1929, when it was purchased by Sir 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