Robert Willis (diplomat)

Robert Francis Willis, M.A., rector of Cudworth, Somerset, and Christiana Charlotte, daughter of Shering Keddle, a solicitor.

In August 1891, after passing a competitive examination, Willis was appointed a student interpreter in China.

[4] Willis had married Violet, daughter of Carl Armbuster, a conductor, composer and musician, in 1899.

One daughter, Rosamund Willis (Mrs W. S. Angus), A.R.C.A, taught crafts at the King Edward VII School of Art at Newcastle, was a lecturer at Durham University and principal of the Luton School of Art from 1935 to 1938.

[5] Her younger sister, Elfreda (Mrs H. N. Edwards), was a Newnham College, Cambridge-educated barrister.