William 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 19th-century 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. by whom he had three children, of whom only one survived: (following which he was known as "Sir William Wills, 1st Baronet") and in 1906 was raised to the peerage as Baron Winterstoke "of Blagdon in the County of Somerset". In 1901 he became chairman of the Imperial Tobacco Company,

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