- Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet
Sir Ernest Salter Wills, 3rd Baronet
CStJ JP (30 November 1869 -14 January 1958 ) wasLord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1930 to 1942.Life
The son of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet, KCB and of Lady Wills (she was Mary Ann, elder daughter of J. Chaning Pearce FGS, of Montagu House, Bath), Wills succeeded his elder brother in the
baronetcy in 1921.The Wills family were part owners of
W. D. & H. O. Wills , tobacco importers and cigarette manufacturers, which had been founded by Wills's great grandfather, Henry Overton Wills, in 1786, and later became part ofImperial Tobacco . Wills was a cousin ofGilbert Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton .In 1894, Wills married Caroline Fanny Maud, daughter of William Augustine de Winton, of Westbury Lodge, Durdham Down,
Bristol , later appointedDStJ , and they had two sons and three daughters.Wills owned substantial properties in England and Scotland:
Littlecote House , nearHungerford ,Wiltshire , andMeggernie Castle inPerthshire , and also owned the "Château de l'oiseau bleu" atMenton on theFrench Riviera . He was a director of Imperial Tobacco and of the Portishead District Water Company.He was succeeded in the title by his elder son, Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Edward de Winton Wills,
Scots Guards .References
*"WILLS, Sir Ernest (Salter) 3rd Bt" in "Who Was Who 1897-2007" (London, A. & C. Black)
* [http://members.cox.net/ghgraham/ernestwills1869.html Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet] at cox.net
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