Baron Dulverton, of
Batsford
Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a falconry centre close to the village and Batsford Arboretum is nearby, ...
in the
County of Gloucester, is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...
. It was created in 1929 for the businessman
Sir Gilbert Wills, 2nd Baronet. He was President of the
Imperial Tobacco Company and also sat as a
Conservative Member of Parliament for
Taunton and
Weston-super-Mare. The Wills Baronetcy, of Manor Heath in the
Parish of Bournemouth in the
County of Southampton, was created in 1897 for his father
Frederick Wills. He was a director of
W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, and also represented
Bristol North
Bristol North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.
History
The seat was one of a small minority s ...
in Parliament as a
Liberal Unionist. A member of the wealthy
Bristol tobacco importing Wills family, he was the younger brother of
Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet, a half brother of
Sir Frank William Wills Kt., and the cousin of
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.
...
. In 1966 the Wills family contained the largest number of millionaires in the British Isles, with 14 members leaving fortunes in excess of one million pounds since 1910, totalling £55 million.
[Guinness Book of Records, London, 1966, p. 230] the titles are held by the first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1992.
The family seat is
Batsford Park, near
Batsford
Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a falconry centre close to the village and Batsford Arboretum is nearby, ...
,
Gloucestershire.
Wills baronets, of Manor Heath (1897)
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Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet (1838–1909)
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Sir Gilbert Alan Hamilton Wills, 2nd Baronet (1880–1956) (created Baron Dulverton in 1929)
Barons Dulverton (1929)
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Gilbert Alan Hamilton Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton (1880–1956)
*(Frederick) Anthony Hamilton Wills, 2nd Baron Dulverton (1915–1992)
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(Gilbert) Michael Hamilton Wills, 3rd Baron Dulverton (b. 1944)
The
heir apparent is the present holder's only son Hon. Robert Anthony Hamilton Wills (b. 1983) who is working for Capital Collective Limited in the UK.
See also
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Baron Winterstoke
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...
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Wills baronets, of Hazlewood
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1929
Noble titles created for UK MPs