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WILLETT, AUGUSTUS SALTREN, eldest son of John Saltren Willett, Torrington, Devon, and Elizabeth Percy, sister of John Holt White (qv); b. 25 Oct 1817; adm. 26 Jan 1830 (Stelfox's); left Whitsun 1832; RMC Sandhurst; Cornet, 17th Lancers 9 Dec 1836; Lieut., 31 Dec 1839; Capt., 11 Jun 1842; Maj., 28 May 1852; served in the Crimea; d. unm. at Balaclava, of cholera, 22 Oct 1854. [Father a Proctor, Court of Arches (occurs 1831) ?] [son of John Salter Willett (qv) ?] [related to Clevland family : check]

Willett, Arnold Theodore, brother of Herbert Burrows Willett (q.v.); b. Aug. 15, 1883; adm. as (non-resident) Q.S. Sept. 24, 1896 (R); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1902, matric. Michaelmas 1902; B.A. 1906; M.A. 1911; asst. master, King's Coll. School, Sept. 1907 - July 1909, at Westminster School 1909-45; Capt., unattached (T.F.) June 4, 1914; O.C. Westminster School O.T.C.; housemaster of Home boarders 1922-25, and of Grant's 1925-35; first master of the Under School 1943-45; m. Aug. 30, 1948, Audrey Florence, 3rd daughter of George John Palmer, of Hendon Hall, Middx; d. Oct. 6, 1961.

Willett, Alfred Stuart, brother of Herbert Burrows Willett (q.v.); b. March 25, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (R); left March 1893; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. (M.T.) April 15, 1918; m. Oct. 10, 1906, Cicely Hilda, daughter of Charles William Catt, of Duffield, Derbyshire; d. Jan. 21, 1935.

WILLET, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765.

WILLET, ---; b.; in school list 1764; left Dec 1764.

WILLES, WILLIAM, second son of Rev. William Shippen Willes, Rector of Preston Bissett, Bucks., and Prebendary of York, and his second wife Margaret, only dau. of John Williams, Panthowell, Carmarthenshire; b. 6 Mar 1802; adm. 3 May 1813; at Haileybury Coll. 1818-20; Writer, EICS Bombay 1819; Assistant to Collector, Poona 18 Jul 1821; Assistant Register of Adawlut, Northern Concan 7 Oct 1822; Register, Candeish 2 Feb 1824; acting magistrate, Centre Division 20 Aug 1833; out of service 1834; of Astrop House, Northants; DL JP Northants, High Sheriff 1837; JP Oxfordshire; m. 8 Dec 1831 Sophia, dau. of William Ralph Cartwright MP, Aynho, Northants; d. 15 Mar 1865.

WILLES, WILLIAM, brother of Edward Willes (adm. 1730/1, qv); bapt. Westminster Abbey 20 Dec 1731; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1739/40; left 1741; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1747; BA 27 Feb 1749/50; MA 1753; employed as government decipherer c. 1752 – c. 1764; ordained deacon (Rochester for London) 1 Dec 1755, priest (Bath and Wells) 14 Jan 1756; Rector of Christian Malford, Wilts., from 16 Jan 1756; Prebendary of Wells 14 Oct 1757-60, Chancellor 3 Apr 1758-60; Archdeacon of Taunton 31 Dec 1760-7, Archdeacon of Wells from 20 Oct 1767; Rector of West Camel, Somerset 1788 (disp. to hold with R. Christian Malford); m. 23 Oct 1766 Margaret, sister of William Jeanes, Shroton, Dorset; d. 12 May 1815 (M. I. Christian Malford, Wilts. ).

WILLES, JOHN, brother of Edward Willes (adm. 1730/1, qv); bapt. Westminster Abbey 10 Mar 1729; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1739/40 (Christian name recorded as “Charles” by Russell Barker and Stenning, but Hudson’s transcript reads “John”); left 1747; Lieut. , Royal Navy 1 Mar 1749; Cdr. , superannuated, 29 Sep 1796; d. unm. 1804]

WILLES, SIR FRANCIS, brother of Edward Willes (adm. 1730/1, qv); b. 30 May 1735; adm. May 1744 (Peirson's); left 1748; Decipherer, Foreign Office c. 1758 – c. 1807, salary commencing 5 Apr 1763; Under Secretary of State, Southern Dept., Oct 1772 – Nov 1775; knighted 11 Aug 1784; of Cockenhtach and Ippolits, Herts., and of Hampstead, Middlesex; m. 6 Aug 1788 [or 1778 ?] Mary, eldest dau. of Hon. George Clinton, Governor of New York; d. 30 Oct 1827. Buried North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey.