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Sir George Alfred Wills, 1st Baronet of Blagdon (3 June 1854 – 11 July 1928) was a President of Imperial Tobacco and the head of an eminent Bristol family.
George Wills (1854-1928; ODNB), 1st bt (1923), chairman, Imperial Tobacco, 1911-24, then president; director, Great Western Railway; a leading benefactor of the University of Bristol and other Bristol causes; left money to Bristol Cathedral, and to the diocese of Bath and Wells to supplement clergy stipends.
Sir George Wills, Bt., president of the Imperial Tobacco Company and a munificent benefactor to Bristol, and especially Bristol University, died last night at his residence, Burwalls, Leigh Woods, at the age of 74.
George Alfred Wills was a keen amateur historian who regretted his lack of a university education - this was the main reason why he associated himself, and his wealth, with the University in Bristol.
Apr 27, 2022 · Genealogy for Sir George Alfred Wills, 1st Baronet (1854 - 1928) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- June 03, 1854
- April 27, 2022
- July 11, 1928 (74)
- Jason Scott Wills
“We regret to announce that Sir George Alfred Wills passed away last evening at his residence, Burwalls, Leigh Woods, where he had been lying seriously ill for some time”. So began the home news page of The Western Daily Press (WDP) of Thursday 12 July 1928.
Sir George Alfred Wills and Henry Herbert Wills stepped in to solve what was by the early 1920s an urgent accommodation problem (plus ça change...). They settled on the house and estate of Downside in Stoke Bishop, whose owner had recently died.
