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John Willes

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Data Last Updated: 27 February 2026
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 29 November 1685

Died: 15 December 1761

Knighted - 23 January 1737

son of Rev John Willes

son of Anne Walker

husband of Margaret Brewster

Education

Lichfield Grammar School

Trinity College, Oxford   (- 1700)

Lincoln's Inn   (1708 -)

Appointments

Elections fought

12 April 1722		Launceston	Whig	25	36.76
17 March 1724 Dr John Freind unseated on petition and John Willes declared elected.
1726 Resignation of John Willes on appointment as Second Justice of Chester.