Frank William Wills

He initially attended Mill Hill School in London and Amersham Hall in Buckinghamshire, before entering the Merchant Venturer's Technical College in Bristol, where he trained as an architect and surveyor.

Wills company factory on East Street in Bedminster, the facade of which is partially preserved in the modern building.

[4][5] His interests turned in later years to politics and public service, which led him to serve in 1891 as president of the Anchor Society, a charitable organisation in Bristol that looked after the old and infirm.

[7] He was also a Justice of the Peace, and died a much respected citizen on 26 March 1932 in Bristol, where he is buried in the Arnos Vale Cemetery.

In 1874 Frank married Sarah Rebecca Dobell,[citation needed] a daughter of Henry William Dobell of Sherard House, Eltham (who was Comptroller General) and Mary Charlotte Seth-Smith, whose father Seth Smith built large portions of Mayfair and Belgravia in the early 19th century.