WILLYS, Sir William, 6th Bt. (c.1685-1732), of Fen Ditton, Cambs.

Sir William Willys headed the poll at Great Bedwyn in 1727, presumably with the support of his brother-in-law, Francis Stonehouse of Hungerford and of Stokke, in Great Bedwyn, a former Member for the borough, who had married Mary Evelyn, Willys’s half-sister.Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. ii. 102; Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 35, 361; Evelyn Diary, ed. E. S. de Beer, v. 358 n. 6, 7. He voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions till his death, 14 Apr. 1732.