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William Henry Wills (journalist), William Henry Wills
William Wills may refer to: * William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke (1830–1911), British businessman and peer * William Gorman Wills (1828–1891), Irish dramatist and painter * William Henry Wills (journalist) (1810–1880), journalist, newspaper editor and friend of Charles Dickens * William Henry Wills (politician) (1882–1946), American politician and governor of Vermont * William John Wills (1834–1861), English explorer and second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition * William Day Wills (1791–1865), British tobacco merchant * William Ridley Wills (Insurance executive) (1871–1949) Founder, National Life and Accident Insurance Co. * William Ridley Wills (1897–1957), American novelist, poet, and journalist * Ridley Wills II (born 1934) Full name: William Ridley Wills II – American businessman, author, historian * William S. S. Willes William Sydney Smith Willes (March 18, 1819 – February 3, 1871), familiarly known as Sidney Willes, was a Mormon pioneer, me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke
William Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke (1 September 1830 – 29 January 1911), known as Sir William Wills, Bt., between 1893 and 1906, was a British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal politician. Seat - Combe Lodge, Blagdon, Somerset. London residence - 25 Hyde Park Gardens. Seaside retreat - East Court, Ramsgate, Kent. Background Wills was the son of William Day Wills and a cousin of Sir Edward Payson Wills Bt, Sir Frederick Wills Bt, Sir Frank William Wills Kt, and Henry Overton Wills III, first chancellor of the University of Bristol. Business career A member of the wealthy Bristol tobacco-importing Wills family, Wills joined the family firm at an early age. In 1858 he went into partnership with two of his cousins to take over W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later became part of the Imperial Tobacco Company, of which he was the first chairman. Recognised as the head of the tobacco industry in Britain, he was also Chairman of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce. In 1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gorman Wills
William Gorman Wills (28 January 182813 December 1891), usually known as W. G. Wills, was an Irish dramatist, novelist and painter. Early life and career Wills was born at Blackwell lodge in the neighbourhood of Kilkenny, Kilmurry, County Kilkenny, Ireland, the son of the Reverend James Wills (poet), James Wills (1790–1868), author of ''Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen'', and his wife Katherine Gorman Wills. As a young man, he was educated at Waterford Grammar School and later went to Trinity College, Dublin where he took no degree, but was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Medal for his poem "Poland." He later left the university and enrolled at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin where he studied painting. Though he had originally planned to study law, Wills preferred the arts. His first novel was ''Old Times'', for which he also drew and engraved the illustrations. After publishing ''Old Times'' in an Irish magazine, he travelled to London, and for some time w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Wills (journalist)
William Henry Wills JP (13 January 1810 – 1 September 1880) was a British journalist, playwright, a newspaper editor and a close friend and confidant of the author Charles Dickens, who entrusted Wills with the task of forwarding his letters to his mistress Ellen Ternan.William Henry Wills in the , 1885–1900, Volume 62 Early career Born in in 1810, his father, at one time a wealthy ship-owner and prize-agent, met with misfortunes, and the family moved to London in 1819. On the death o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Wills (politician)
William Henry Wills (October 26, 1882 – March 6, 1946) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He was the 61st lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and the 65th governor of Vermont from 1941 to 1945. In 1944, Wills was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Biography William Henry Wills was born in Chicago, Illinois, where his family lived for the first ten years of his life. When his father, James Henry Wills, died, his mother Alzina moved to Vergennes, Vermont, to live near relatives, and he lived there for eight years. At eighteen, he moved to Bennington, where he worked at several occupations, including selling shoes. He was married to Hazel McLeod and they had one child. Career Wills started an insurance company in 1915, and was also involved in other financial services. He got into electoral politics in the 1920s, winning election to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1928, representing Bennington; he won the Bennington Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Wills
William John Wills (5 January 1834 – ) was a British surveyor who also trained as a surgeon. Wills achieved fame as the second-in-command of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Early years William John Wills was born on 5 January 1834 in Totnes, Devon, England, and he was the second of seven children born to William Wills (died 28 September 1889) and Sarah Mary Elizabeth Wills (née Calley, born 23 December 1800, baptized 12 March 1801 in Totnes, and died 19 February 1880). Wills lived at the family home at Ipplepen, and as a young child he contracted a fever which left him with "slow and hesitating speech". He was home-tutored by his father until the age of 11, and from 1845 to 1850 attended St Andrew's Grammar School in Ashburton. He was then articled to his father's surgical practice, and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Day Wills
William Day Wills (6 June 1797 – 13 May 1865) of 2 Portland Square, Bristol, England, was a tobacco merchant who in 1830 together with his younger brother Henry Overton Wills II took over 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 tobacco products. Origins William Day Wills was born on 6 June 1797 in Bristol the elder of the two sons of Henry Overton Wills I (1761-1826) by his wife Ann Day. In 1786 his Salisbury-born father, with his partner Samuel Watkins, had opened a tobacco shop in Bristol, which grew into a successful business. Career Business In 1815 William and his younger brother Henry Overton Wills II (1800-1871) joined their father's firm and in 1826 following their father's death became co-owners of the company. In 1830 the brothers founded W.D. & H.O. Wills, which grew to become the leading importer of tobacco, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ridley Wills (Insurance Executive)
William Ridley Wills, (September 19, 1871 – November 21, 1949) was a founder of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in Nashville in 1902. Born in west Tennessee, Wills came to Nashville in 1893 to serve as Tennessee's deputy commissioner of insurance. There he met C.A. Craig and C. Runcie Clements and the three men formed the National Life and Accident Company after purchasing another insurance company which was being sold at auction. The new company sold health and accident insurance policies to industrial workers, a large percentage of whom were African-American. The company grew and moved into a large stone building in downtown Nashville where, in 1925, it launched radio station WSM (AM), WSM which won international fame in creating the broadcast the "Grand Ole Opry". Wills died of a stroke in 1949. His nephew (identically named) was poet and novelist William Ridley Wills, and his grandson is author and historian Ridley Wills II, William Ridley Wills II. Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ridley Wills
William Ridley Wills (March 4, 1897 – September 8, 1957) was an American novelist, poet, and journalist. Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, he was a graduate of Vanderbilt University and a member of the "Fugitives (poets), Fugitives" a literary movement of the 1920s. He worked for the ''Memphis Press'', ''The Commercial Appeal'', and the ''Nashville Banner'' newspapers before leaving for New York to become the Sunday Editor for the ''New York World''. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the U.S. Army, 76th Field Artillery during World War I and saw action during at Somme, St. Michel, and Meuse-Argonne, France. He was honorably discharged in France on July 12, 1919. Wills wrote two novels; ''Hoax'' (1922), the life of a young man from the age of eighteen to twenty-seven, and ''Harvey Landrum'' (1924), a psychological study of chinless Harvey Landrum, who tries to conceal a sense of inferiority behind a false front of bravery, are written in a frank but restrained prose style. He and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridley Wills II
William Ridley Wills II (born June, 1934) is an American author and historian living in Nashville, Tennessee, who has authored 28 historical and biographical books as of 2021. He received the Tennessee History Book Award in 1991 for his first book, ''The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation and Stud''. He is a past president of the Tennessee Historical Society and in 2016, was given an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The University of the South. He is a former executive of a company founded by his grandfather, the National Life and Accident Insurance Company and was on the boards of trust of Vanderbilt University and Montgomery Bell Academy, a prep school for boys in Nashville. Family history Wills' grandfather was businessman William Ridley Wills, one of the founders of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in Nashville in 1902. In 1925, the company launched radio station WSM on the fifth floor of its building and created the country music broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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