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Henry Overton Wills III.
Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1828–1911)
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About Henry Overton Wills III
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. As a philanthropist his best-known act was the funding of the University of Bristol, founded in 1909, of which he became the first Chancellor.
Everything about Henry Overton Wills III →- Occupation
- industrialist
- Position held
- Chancellor of the University of Bristol
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- December 22, 1828
- Died
- September 4, 1911