Baron Winterstoke

Baron Winterstoke

Baron Winterstoke, of Blagdon in the County of Somerset, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 February 1906 William Wills, the first President of the Imperial Tobacco Company. He had already been created a Baronet, of Blagdon in the County of Somerset, on 12 August 1893. The titles became extinct on his death on 29 January 1911.

Barons Winterstoke (1906)

*William Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke (1830–1911)

ee also

*Wills Baronets
*Henry Overton Wills III

References

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