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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.

WILLIS, CALEB, of Devon; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1585, matr. 22 Apr 1586, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1598; BA 1589; MA 1592; first Professor of Rhetoric, Gresham Coll., London 1598; d. 1598/9.

WILLIS, BROWNE, son of Thomas Willis, Bletchley, Bucks. , and Alice, eldest dau. of Robert Browne, Frampton, Dorset; b. 14 Sep 1682; at school under Knipe (Lipscomb, Buckinghamshire iv, 12); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Mar 1699/1700; MA 1720; DCL 1749; adm. Inner Temple 10 Feb 1699/1700; MP Buckingham 3 Dec1705-8; an industrious and learned antiquary; FSA 1718; author of published histories of various English and Welsh cathedrals, also of Notitia Parliamentaria, 1715, and other works; m. 1707 Katharine, only child of Daniel Eliot, Port Eliot, Cornwall; d. 5 Feb 1760. DNB.