He was the son of Henry Overton Wills III and Alice Hopkinson and was born in Clifton, Bristol.
[1] He also funded the building of the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory situated in Royal Fort Gardens.
He was married to Dame Monica Cunliffe Wills, but the union was apparently childless.
However, one of his nephews, Walter Douglas Melville Wills, of Barley Wood (named in Burke's Landed Gentry), bought Barley Wood from his said uncle, thus continuing the family ownership.
Wills are held at Bristol Archives (Ref.