Even a 1958 return to KVOO, where his younger brother Johnnie Lee Wills had maintained the family's presence, did not produce the success he hoped for.

A member of the wealthy Bristol tobacco importing Wills family, he was the younger brother of Sir Edward Wills, 1st Baronet, and the cousin of William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke.

On February 9, 1932, Milton Brown, his brother Durwood, Bob Wills, and C. G.

Wills was impressed with Brown's voice and immediately asked him and his guitarist brother, Derwood, to join the band.

For many years, Wills role in the birth of Australian Football was played down by MCC officials who instead credited most of this to his cousin ( and also brother in-law ), H. C. A. Harrison, and some believe this to be due Harrison's apparently more wholesome character.

The band comprised Gilmour himself on guitars and vocals plus the two musicians on the album ( bass player Rick Wills and drummer Willie Wilson ) plus David Gilmour's brother Mark on rhythm guitar and Ian McLagan on keyboards and performed " Mihalis ", " There's No Way Out of Here ", " So Far Away ", " No Way ", and " I Can't Breathe Anymore ".

His brother Joseph Storrs Fry (£ 10, 000 ), cousin Francis Fry (£ 5, 000 ), Sir William Henry Wills (£ 10, 000 ) and Sir Fredrick Wills (£ 5, 000 ).

Wills Physics Laboratory built by George in memory of his brother which cost some £ 200, 000 and the building of Wills Hall, a hall of residence for the University in Stoke Bishop.

Townson died in 1827 and ownership passed onto Thomas Wills the brother of Sarah Redfern wife of William Redfern.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Although Tom Wills is now recognised to have played a larger role in the club's early development, H. C. A.

The seeds of the Melbourne Football Club may have been sown in 1858 with meetings involving influential cricketer Tom Wills, Scotch College headmaster Thomas H. Smith and Melbourne Cricket Club member and publican Jerry Bryant, a personal friend of Wills.

Those in attendance included Tom Wills, William Hammersley, J. B. Thompson and Thomas H. Smith.

One of the earliest records of flooding comes from an 1860s match between Geelong captain coached by Tom Wills and Ballarat Football Club in Ballarat.

On 11th February 2012 a second one was held with guests including Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Katy Manning, Anneke Wills, Terry Molloy and Paul Darrow.

Thomas Wentworth " Tom " Wills ( 19 August 1835 – 2 May 1880 ) was a 19th-century sportsman who is considered one of the pioneers of the sport of Australian rules football.

As part of the Australian Football League's celebrations of the " 150th Year of Australian Football ", round 19 of the 2008 AFL season was named " Tom Wills Round ".

Tom Wills with the Aboriginal team he captained in a match at the MCG in late December 1866

Statue of Tom Wills umpiring a schools football match

Monument and pavilion to Tom Wills in Moyston, Victoria

There is a painting of Tom Wills in the foyer of the Geelong Football Club at Kardinia Park in Geelong.

A room in the Great Southern Stand, known as the Tom Wills Room, reserved for corporate functions is also named after him.

In 2008, Round 19 of the AFL season was named Tom Wills Round to celebrate 150 years of Australian Football and featured a curtain raiser at the MCG between Scotch and Melbourne Grammar to mark the match which Wills famously umpired.

An interchange of the Monash and EastLink Melbourne metropolitan freeways is named the Tom Wills Interchange.

The Wills cup, the first national competition as part of the Australian Football League pre-season competition was not named after Tom Wills but the cigarette company W. D. & H. O. Wills.

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His father was a statewide champion fiddle player and the Wills family was either playing music, or someone was " always wanting us to play for them ," in addition to raising cotton on their farm.

The Wills family frequently held country dances in their home, and there was dancing in all four rooms.

Burke and Wills passed through the area in their famous 1860 – 61 expedition, setting up a base camp at nearby Menindee.

Prior to the Statute of Wills, many people used feoffees to dispose of their land, something that fell under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor anyway.

They would remain the Sir John's Trio until Berry took one of their tunes, a reworking of Bob Wills ' version of " Ida Red " to Chess Records.

Drummer Kenney Jones formed the rock group The Jones Gang, together with singer Robert Hart ( formerly of Bad Company ), Patrick Walford and guitarist Rick Wills ( formerly of Foreigner ); in 2005 their first single " Angel " reached number 1 on the US Billboard " hot singles sales " list.

Alternatively, patients may specify their wishes and / or devolve their decision-making to a proxy using an advance directive, which are commonly referred to as ' Living Wills '.

After the Statute of Wills, 32 Henry VIII c. 1, Englishmen ( and unmarried or widowed women ) could dispose of their lands and real property by a will.

In 2001, Garry Wills, questioning Pius IX's motives, wrote: " In 1867, he canonized Peter Arbues, a 15th-century inquisitor famed for forcible conversion of Jews, and said in the canonization document, The divine wisdom has arranged that in these sad days, when Jews help the enemies of the church with their books and money, this decree of sanctity has been brought to fulfillment.

Wills and King wanted to follow their outward track back to Menindee, but Burke overruled them and decided to attempt to reach the furthest outpost of pastoral settlement in South Australia, a cattle station near Mount Hopeless.

Burke, Wills, King, Gray, Brahe, Mahomet, Patton and McDonough made their first camp on what they thought was Cooper Creek, but which was actually the Wilson River.

Wills recruited the Light Crust Doughboys and they later changed their name to Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

In between the Tests and the ODIs, Australia were knocked out of the 1999 Wills International Cup, starting in late October, when they were defeated by India in their opening match.

Of all the Lake Eyre Basin river systems, however, Cooper Creek is by far the most famous, in particular because it was along Cooper Creek that the explorers Burke and Wills met their deaths.

Perhaps this was due to greater media exposure in Los Angeles, or to the Dodgers ' greater success, or to their extreme reliance on a low-scoring strategy that emphasized pitching, defense, and Wills ' speed to compensate for their lack of productive hitters.

Wills played himself in the film version of the book All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of their reporting work on the Watergate scandal, but never recovered from his moments of fame.

The first Europeans to traverse the area were Burke and Wills on their epic, and ultimately fatal, transcontinental expedition.

The Burke and Wills expedition crossed the Murrumbidgee River at Balranald on their journey to cross Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Among their first outside contributions were " Ride ' em High, Ride ' em Low ", for the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds, and a cover of " Corrine, Corrina " recorded in collaboration with Asleep at the Wheel for a tribute album to Bob Wills.

Originally called the Light Crust Doughboys, notable musicians such as Bob Wills got their start with O ' Daniel.