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Surname	Wills & Son	Alternative Surname
First Name	J, of New Road, London	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	c1841-47
Year of Death
Biographical Details	Though only three of their works are here recorded, it seems likely that Wills & Son were a successful commercial firm, since their work went out to at least one colonial outpost (1). The Lewis wall tablet follows a standard design, featuring a weeping woman by a draped urn, above a sarcophagus with acroteria. The Fergusson tablet makes use of a similar formula though here the sarcophagus is surmounted by a cross and palm-leaves (2). W J Wills, who may be one of the family, exhibited a teracotta bust at the RA in 1867, no 1027 (Ormond 1973, 108). W J and T Wills were responsible for an 8 foot marble statue of Richard Cobden on a large pedestal, erected in 1868 at the south end of Camden High Street, London (Blackwood 1989, 183, repr).