Wilfrid Dewhurst Wills (15 October 1898 – 20 April 1954) was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Morley from 1931 to 1935.
The son of a Director of Wills Tobacco, he was born at Bromley, Kent and educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served in both World Wars: as an Officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards from 1916 to 1919; and as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve from 1939 to 1945.
External links
- Mr. W. D. Wills. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 22 Apr 1954; pg. 8; Issue 52912
- thePeerage.com
- Parliament UK vol 187
- London Gazette
- ‘WILLS, Wilfrid Dewhurst’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 10 Feb 2014
- Genealogical web site
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded byBen Turner | Member of Parliament for Batley and Morley 1931–1935 |
Succeeded byWillie Brooke |
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- 1898 births
- 1954 deaths
- UK MPs 1931–1935
- People from Bromley
- People educated at Cheltenham College
- Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- 5th Dragoon Guards officers
- Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Military personnel from the London Borough of Bromley
- Royal Navy officers