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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.

WILLIS, ---; b.; adm. Michaelmas 1806; left 1810.

WILLIS, ---; b.; in under school list 1732, school lists 1733-7.

WILLIS, ---; b.; in under school list 1715.

WILLIAMS-WYNN, WILLIAM WATKIN, brother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (in school lists 1764-5, qv); b.; at school under Markham (J. E. Griffith, Predigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, 1914, 19); d. at school of smallpox 12 Apr 1759.

WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., eldest son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv); b. 22 May 1820; adm. 18 Jun 1832 (Benthall's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1837; Cornet, 1st Life Guards 19 Jul 1839; Lieut., 27 Sep 1842; retd. 7 Jul 1843; succ. father as 6th Baronet 6 Jan 1840; MP (Cons) Denbighshire from 1841; ADC (Volunteers) to Queen Victoria 1881; member, Society of Dilettanti 1883; Busby Trustee 20 May 1879; used to come to the School on St. David’s Day until the last year of his life to ask for an “Early Play” and to tip all the Welsh boys (and “Monos”) a sovereign each; m. 28 Apr 1852 his cousin Mary Emily, youngest dau. of Right Hon. Sir Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn PC KCB GCH, diplomat; d. 9 May 1885.

WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., eldest son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (in school lists 1764-5, qv); b. 26 Oct 1772; adm. 23 Mar 1784; succ. father as 5th baronet 29 Jul 1789; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1789; DCl 4 Jul 1793; Mp Beaumaris 20 Oct 1794-6, Denbighshire from 1796; Lord Lieut., Merioneth from 4 Dec 1793, and of Denbighshire from 4 Apr 1796; Col., Royal Denbigh Militia 15 Jan 1797 (still 1820), also Col., Denbighshire Yeomanry; ADC (Welsh Militia) to William IV and Queen Victoria; member, Society of Dilettanti 1806; known as “the Prince of Wales” because of the influence which he possessed in the Principality; m. 4 Feb 1817 Lady Henrietta Antonia Clive, eldest dau. of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis; d. 6 Jan 1840.

WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., elder son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (formerly Williams), Bart. DCL MP, politician and landowner, and his second wife Frances, dau. of George Shakerley, Gwersylt, Denbighshire; b. 8 Apr 1749; succ. father as 4th baronet 23 Sep 1749; in school lists 1764, 1765; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 May 1766; DCl 4 Jul 1771; Grand Tour (Italy) 1768-9; MP Shropshire 5 Mar 1772-4, Denbighshire from 1774; Lord Lieut., Merioneth, from 10 Jun 1775; FRS 17 Jun 1773; member, Society of Dilettanti 1775; m. 1st, 13 Apr 1769 Lady Henrietta Somerset, fifth dau. of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (qv); m. 2nd, 21 Dec 1771 Charlotte, dau. of Right Hon. George Grenville PC MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; d. 29 Jul 1789.

WILLIAMS-WYNN, WATKIN HENRY, eldest son of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm. 1784, qv); b. 27 Jun 1816; adm. 2 Apr 1827 (Stikeman's); d. 9 Jul 1832.