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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.
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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.