Sir Ernest Salter Wills, 3rd Baronet CStJ Justice of the Peace was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1930 to 1942.
Background
The son of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and of Lady Wills (she was Mary Ann, elder daughter of J Chaning Pearce FGS, of Montagu House, Bath), Wills succeeded his elder brother in the baronetcy in 1921.
Career
The Wills family were part owners of West. Doctorate. & H. O. Wills, tobacco importers and cigarette manufacturers, which had been founded by Wills"s great grandfather, Henry Overton Wills, in 1786, and later became part of Imperial Tobacco. Wills was a cousin of Gilbert Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton. Wills owned substantial properties in England and Scotland: Littlecote House, near Hungerford, Wiltshire, and Meggernie Castle in Perthshire, and also owned the Château de l"oiseau bleu at Menton on the French Riviera.
He was a director of Imperial Tobacco and of the Portishead District Water Company.