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Sir William Henry Wills

William Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke Bt (September 1 1830 – January 29 1911), was the first chairman of Imperial Tobacco. He was from the wealthy Bristol tobacco importing Wills family.

In 1904 Wills gave the people of Bristol the gift of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. He was made a baronet in 1893 and was subsequently raised to the peerage in 1906.

When he died in 1911 Wills' estate was worth UK £2,548,209. Lord Winterstoke died without heirs, so the title Lord Winterstoke became extinct upon his death.

William was the brother of Henry Overton Wills III, first chancellor of the University of Bristol.

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Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}

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Preceded by Henry Eaton and Henry Mather Jackson	Member of Parliament for Coventry 2-seat constituency until 1885 (with Sir Henry Mather Jackson, to 1881; Henry Eaton, from 1881 1880–1885	Succeeded by Henry Eaton
Preceded by Sir Joseph Dodge Weston	Member of Parliament for Bristol East 1895–1900	Succeeded by Charles Hobhouse

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