John Willis

John Jamieson Willis (8 November 1872 – 12 November 1954) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934 and subsequently Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He and William George Peel, Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during the Kikuyu controversy.

Biography Born on 8 November 1872, the second son of Sir William Willis, Accountant-General of the Navy, and great-grandson of Joseph Tucker, Surveyor of the Navy, Willis was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1894, Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1899, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 1912.

Profession He was ordained in 1895 and began his career with a curacy in Great Yarmouth. He was then appointed under the CMS to Ankole, Uganda and later transferred to Entebbe where he served as Chaplain to the English Community. He opened up a new mission station in Kavirondo eventually becoming Archdeacon of Kavirondo before his appointment to the episcopate in 1912. In 1934 he returned to England to be Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He died on 12 November 1954.