Willes, Edward, Dd

Willes, Edward, D.D.

a Church of England divine, was prebend of Westminster in 1724, of Lincoln in 1730, dean the same year, elected bishop of St. David's in 1742, translated to the see of Bath and Wells in 1743, and died November 24, 1773. See (Lond.) Annual Register, 1773, page 176.