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Willes, Francis, 1735-1827
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1735-1827
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.