Ernest Hemingway | Sir | Sir Walter Scott | 3rd Rock from the Sun | baronet | Baronet | Ernest Shackleton | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Ernest Borgnine | South Carolina's 3rd congressional district | Ernest Tubb | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Sir Robert Peel | Michigan's 3rd congressional district | Ernest Rutherford | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Ernest Renan | 3rd United States Congress | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | 3rd arrondissement of Marseille | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Ernest Chausson | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Ernest Bloch | Ernest Bevin | Ernest | Chill Wills | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet |
His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.
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.
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The Wills family were part owners of W. D. & 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.
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The son of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet, KCB 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.