Thomas Willis obituary (d.1827)

Post date: Feb 21, 2012 9:18:12 PM

Thomas Willis was vicar of Wateringbury from 1800 to 1827. His obituary is recorded in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol 142 of 1827.

Nov. 9. At the Rectory-house, Bloomsbury, the Rev. Thomas Willis, Rector of that parish, Prebendary and Treasurer of Rochester, and Vicar of Wateringbury, Kent. He was the son of the Rev. Dr. Francis Willis, physician to the King, who died in 1807 (see vol. Lxxvii. p, 1180.) He was of Queen's College, Cambridge, LL.B. 1781, L.LD. 1791; was in the latter year presented, by the Crown, to his London church and to a Prebend of Rochester, Lord Thurlow being then Lord Chancellor; and was presented to Wateringbury by the Dean and Chapter of Rochester in 1800. His remains were interred in Bloomsbury church-yard.