Henry Overton Wills III
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Henry Overton Wills III 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.
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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
Coats of arms on the Wills Memorial Building, built by the eldest two sons of Henry Overton Wills III: centre: arms of the University of Bristol; left: arms of Sir George Alfred Wills, 1st Baronet, with a canton of a baronet (the Red Hand of Ulster); right: arms of Henry Herbert Wills, with a crescent for the difference of a second son
Wills Memorial Building
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The Wills Memorial Building is a neo-Gothic building in Bristol, England, designed by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III by his sons George and Henry Wills. Begun in
Henry Overton Wills III
…a hall of residence at Bristol University and in 1923 was created a Baronet "of Blagdon". Together with his brother Henry Herbert Wills he built the Wills Memorial Building in Bristol in memory of his father. Henry Herbert Wills (1856–1922), 2nd son, also active in the family tobacco firm of WD & HO Wills, of which he was…
Wills Memorial Building in 2009
Construction of the Wills Memorial Building
The Wills Memorial Geology Library
Wills Memorial Building, front face