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Willett, Victor John Austen, eldest son of Edmund Austen Willett, of Whitwell, Isle of Wight, by Marion, daughter of Edward Covey, M.R.C.S., of Basingstoke, Hants; b. Jan. 19, 1873; adm. Sept. 22, 1887 (R); left July 1891; Trin. Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. June 15, 1891); B.A. 1894; a member of the Okanagan Mission, British Columbia; m. June 4, 1898, Marjory Lucy Mary, youngest daughter of Frederic Willett (q.v.); d. at Kelowna, Dec. 17, 1958.

WILLETT, THOMAS, eldest son of Rev. Waring Willett, St. Margaret’s Churchyard, Westminster, Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey, and Hannah ---; bapt. St. Mary, Marylebone Road 21 Apr 1773 (IGI); adm. 15 Jan 1783; KS (aged 12) 1785; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1789, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1789; migrated to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 6 May 1791; BA 1796; MA 1797; Assistant Master, Loughborough House Sch., Surrey; living 1801 (will proved PCC 12 Feb 1847, Loughborough House, Surrey).

WILLETT, RALPH, elder son of Henry Willett, St. Kitts, West Indies, and Elizabeth, elder dau. of Col. John Stanley, Nevis, West Indies; b. 8 Aug 1719; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1732/3; left 1734; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Jun 1736, aged 17; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Jan 1738/9; inherited large West Indian estates on death of his father in 1749; of Merly, Dorset; High Sheriff, Dorset 1760; FSA 5 Dec 1763; FRS 21 Jun 1764; a collector of early printed books, specimens of block printing, prints, pictures and botanical drawings; author of three papers in Archaeologia; m. 1st, 9 Dec 1779 (IGI) Annabella Robinson; m. 2nd, 15 May 1786 Charlotte, widow of Samuel Strutt, Assistant Clerk, House of Lords, and dau. of --- Locke, Clerkenwell; d. 13 Jan 1795. DNB.

WILLETT, JOHN SALTER; b. ; adm. ; in school lists 1797, 1801. [Perhaps John Willett, son of Augustus Saltren Willett, and Frances Davie; bapt. Northam, Devon 19 Oct 1785 (IGI) : father of Augustus Saltren Willett ?]

Willett, John Abernethy, brother of Herbert Burrows Willett (q.v.); b. June 14, 1872; adm. April 1884 (R); left July 1890; Univ. Coll. Oxon., matric. Oct. 11, 1890; B.A. and M.B. 1894; M.A. and M.D. 1906; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1899; practised in London; Capt. R.A.M.C. (T.F.) April 1, 1916; served in Mesopotamia and France in Great War I; d. May 6, 1932.

WILLETT, HERBERT BURROWS, eldest son of Alfred Willett FRCS, Wimpole Street, London, and Rose Ellen, only dau. of Sir George Burrows, Bart. , MD FRS, President, Royal College of Physicians; nephew of Frederic Willett (qv); b. 25 Apr 1870; adm. 26 Jan 1883 (J); left Jul 1888; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1888; played hockey v. Cambridge 1890, 1891; BA 1891; adm. solicitor May 1895; practised in London; JP Sussex; m. 19 Apr 1900 Isobel, dau. of James Matthews Duncan, Brook Street, Hanover Square, London.

WILLETT, HENRY, brother of Ralph Willett (qv); b. 23 Oct 1721; adm. Jan 1732/3; d. at school 9 Nov 1733.

WILLETT, FREDERIC, son of William Catt (afterwards Willett), Portland Place, Brighton, Sussex, and Elizabeth, fourth dau. of William Verrall, Southover, Lewes, Sussex; b. 16 Jun 1838; adm. 29 Jan 1852 (as Frederic Catt) (G); QS 1853; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1857, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1857; BA 1861; MA 1864; ordained deacon (Rochester) 1861, priest (Lichfield) 1862; Curate, St. Peter, Wolverhampton, Staffs., 1861-5; Vicar of West Bromwich, Staffs., 1865-81; Curate in charge, Scaynes Hill, Lindfield, Sussex 1881-4; assumed surname of Willett in lieu of Catt 27 Jun 1863; author, Osney Foss, 1908; m. 6 Apr 1869 Mary, eldest dau. of Lieut. -Col. John Nock Bagnall, Lichfield, Staffs.; d. 5 Jun 1939.

Willett, Frederic Wilfrid Bagnall, son of Frederic Willett (q.v.); b. March 3, 1878; adm. May 8, 1891 (G); left April 1894; 2nd Lieut. Sussex Regt. May 15, 1897; Lieut. Feb. 22, 1899; Capt. June 1, 1905; Major Sept. 1, 1915; Lieut.-Col. Nov. 14, 1921; retired Jan. 10, 1922; served in South Africa 1900-2, and in Great War I 1914-9; mentioned in despatches L.G. Jan. 1, 1916, Jan. 4, 1917, and May 22, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1916; m. July 23, 1904, Kathleen Maud, eldest daughter of Matthew George Megaw, of Warninglid, Sussex; d. 1951.

Willett, Bernard Hastings, brother of Herbert Burrows Willett (q.v.); b. Dec. 29, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (R); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1899, matric. Michael­mas 1899; B.A. 1903; M.A. 1907; played football (Assoc.) for Oxford 1901; asst. master at Charterhouse School 1904-45; served in France in Great War I; Lieut. R.G.A. (S.R.) July 1, 1917, employed R.E.; m. April 23, 1919, Muriel, youngest daughter of Ethelbert Hosking, M.R.C.S., of Turner's Hill, Sussex; d. March 14, 1949.