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English: Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University. Bristol University was founded in 1909, largely at his own personal expense, by Henry Overton Wills III (22 December 1828 – 4 September 1911) of Kelston Knoll, near Bath in Somerset, a prominent and wealthy member of the Bristol tobacco manufacturing family of Wills which founded the firm of W. D. & H. O. Wills. He became the first Chancellor. The Wills Memorial Building was built in his memory by his two eldest sons:
  • Sir George Alfred Wills, 1st Baronet (1854–1928), eldest son and heir, of Combe Lodge, Blagdon, Somerset, and of Burwalls, Leigh Woods, Long Ashton, Somerset. He served as managing director and later as president of Imperial Tobacco. He donated about £135,000 for the creation of a hall of residence at Bristol University and in 1923 was created a Baronet "of Blagdon". Together with his brother Henry Herbert Wills he built the Wills Memorial Building in Bristol in memory of his father.
  • Henry Herbert Wills (1856-1922), 2nd son, also active in the family tobacco firm of WD & HO Wills.

The arms of the University are shown at centre, with the arms at left of Sir George Alfred Wills, 1st Baronet (with a canton of a baronet (Red Hand of Ulster)) and at right of Henry Herbert Wills, with a crescent for the difference of a second son.

The arms of the surviving Wills baronetcy "of Hazelwood" (1904) and of Northmoor (1897) (Baron Dulverton) use the arms at right (Gules, three suns in splendour fesswise between two griffins passant or) whilst the arms of the Wills baronets of Blagdon (1923) use the arms at left (Gules, one sun in splendour between two griffins passant or) (Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968)
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