Gilbert Alan Hamilton Wills

Background

Wills was the son of Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet, and his wife Annie (née Hamilton).

Career

The Wills family were part owners of West. Doctorate. & H. O. Wills, tobacco importers and cigarette manufacturers, which later became part of Imperial Tobacco. In the 1929 Dissolution Honours he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dulverton, of Batsford in the County of Gloucester. Lord Dulverton married Victoria May, daughter of Sir Edward Chichester, 9th Baronet, in 1914.

Lady Dulverton died in 1968.

Membership

30th United Kingdom Parliament. 31st United Kingdom Parliament]

Wills was President of the latter company and also served as a Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1912 to 1918 and for Weston-super-Mare from 1918 to 1922.

Connections

Father:: Bt.
Mother:: Anne
heir:: Frederick Noel Hamilton

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