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.