Mary Ann Wills

Mary Ann Wills (née Wykes) (1859?–1942) was a New Zealand artist.

Biography Wills, born Mary Wykes, married Thomas John Wills, a minister in the Anglican Church, in 1886. Rev. Wills was a leader in the temperance movement and died at aged 46, while minister at the Ormondville vicarage.

Throughout her life, she lived in several locations across both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, including North Canterbury, Westland, Napier, Ormondville, Tokaanu, Taupō, and Ōtaki. She is said to have known C. F. Goldie who visited her when he returned from a trip to Paris. Her sons included Webster Harold "Harold" Wills (headmaster of Ōtaki Native College) and her youngest son, Edgar J. Wills.

She died in Waipukurau and was buried in Ormondville, where her late husband had been vicar.

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