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WILLIS, THOMAS, eldest son of Browne Willis (qv); b. 27 Dec 1710; in school list Feb 1727/8 (but already at Westminster by 4 Sep 1727); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1729, aged 19; of North Stoneham, Hampshire; m. 1st, 3 Sep 1735 Anne, dau. of John Hulme, Hulme, Lancs.; m. 2nd, 4 Feb 1747/8 Frances, dau. of John Robinson, Cranesley, Northants; d. 18 Jun 1756.

WILLIS, THOMAS, only surviving son of Thomas Willis MD FRS, St,Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, physician, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University, ’the founder of clinical neuroscience’, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Samuel Fell (qv) ; b. 26 Jan 1657/8 ; at school under Busby (P.Bayle, A General Dictionary, 1741, 173 ; cf. A.Compston, All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity, a Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621-1675, 2021, 66, quoting B.Hutchinson, Biographia Medica, 1799, vol.ii, 481-5, where it is recorded, on the authority of his son Browne Willis (qv), that ‘falling ill with consumption, he [his father] sent him to Montpellier in France, for the recovery of his health, and it proved successful, Thomas returning to his studies at Westminster School’) ; he is evidently to be identified as the unnamed ‘boy about ten years old’, whose coughing and related symptoms, medical treatment, and stay in Montpellier, are mentioned in his father’s London Practice of Physick ; Christ Church, Oxford, mat. 22 Mar 1672/3, Canoneer Student 25 Jul 1673 - void by marriage 1681 ; BA 1676 ; MA 1679 ; of Bletchley, Bucks. ; m. 26 May 1681 Alice, eldest dau. of Robert Browne, Frampton, Dorset ; d. 11 Nov 1699.

WILLIS, THOMAS ALEXANDER, son of Henry Norton Willis, Kensington Palace, Middlesex, Second Clerk of the Household and Coroner of the Verge; b. ; in school list 1795 and sixth form list 1796; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. Jun 1796, matr. Mich. 1796, scholar 1798; BA 1802; MA 1805; ordained; Chaplain, EICS Bengal 1811; d. 1827, aged 50.

WILLIS, ROBERT; b.; adm.; QS 1706; left 1708.

WILLIS, ROBERT DARLING, fifth son of Rev. Francis Willis MD, Greatford, Lincs., a specialist practitioner in mental derangement who treated George III during his first attack of madness, and his first wife Mary, youngest dau. of Rev. John Curtois, Bramston, Lincs.; b. 18 May 1761 (IGI); adm. 26 Jan 1775; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 Jan 1778, aged 17, scholar 29 Sep 1778 – 29 Sep 1783, Tancred Student, matr. Lent 1780; MB 1783; MD 1789; Junior Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll., from 29 Sep 1790; as a medical practitioner he specialised in mental derangement, attending George III during his second attack of madness; FRCP 1 Oct 1798, Censor 1800, 1809; author, Philosophical Sketches of the Principles of Society and Government, 2nd edn., 1796; m.; d. 23 May 1821.

WILLIS, JUSTICE; b.; adm. 3 Apr 1771. [evidently kin to Justice Willis, St. Margaret, Westminster, gentleman, born c. 1720, Solicitor to 2nd Foot Guards 12 Apr 1765 – death 19 Mar 1772, and to Justice Willis, jun., Solicitor to 2nd Foot Guards 20 Mar 1772 – death 24 Jun 1792]

WILLIS, JOHN, son of Philirenes Willis, London; b.; adm.; KS 1764; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1768, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1768, aged 17, scholar 21 Apr 1769, matr. 1770. [Perhaps ordained deacon (Peterborough) 25 Apr 1773]. [will of Philirenes Willis, Bloomsbury, gentleman, proved PCC 18 Mar 1783] [note will Rev. John Willis, proved PCC 29 Jul 1799]

WILLIS, HENRY, third son of Browne Willis (qv); bapt. 10 Feb 1712/3; adm. (aged 16) May 1729; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jul 1731, Canoneer Student 15 Aug 1732-43, Faculty Student from 18 Mar 1743; BA 1735; MA 3 Feb 1737/8; MB 1741; m. Catherine, dau. of Rev. Richard Gregory, Rector of Willersey and Dumbleton, Gloucs.; buried Bridgwater, Somerset 5 May 1746.

Willis, Guy Cooper, youngest son of Edward Cooper Willis, Q.C., of Blackheath, Kent, Bencher of the Inner Temple, by his second wife, Ellen Irene, second daughter of John Calver Brook, of Diss, Norfolk, solicitor; b. Nov. 5, 1884; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (H); Q.S. 1899; left Dec. 1902; Staff Capt. 180th Infantry Brigade; served in Great War I; M.C. Jan. 1, 1919; Trustee Officer, Office of the Treasury Solicitor; retired 1946; O.B.E. June 24, 1946; m. Dec. 4, 1919, Dorothy Marie, elder daughter of Alexander Blackie, of Edinburgh; d. Sept. 6, 1957.