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Mary Wills (philanthropist)

Dame Mary Monica Cunliffe-Owen, Mrs Wills DStJ (18 January 1861 – 2 April 1931) was an English philanthropist.

Early years

She was born in Brompton, Middlesex, the daughter of Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen and Jenny Eliza Pamila Julia (von Reitzenstein). In 1886, she married Henry Herbert Wills, a member of the Wills tobacco family; the union was apparently childless. She spent her latter years at Rockdunder, Wrington, Somerset, and it was there that she died on 2 April 1931. Her sister, Victoria Mary Louise Adelaide Cunliffe-Owen, was married to the publisher Otto Kyllmann.

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