Search results for Bristol.

22 August 1932 Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills

/on-this-day/22-august-1932-dame-janet-stancomb-wills/

Following the early death of her father, Janet Stancomb and her sister were adopted by their uncle Sir William Henry Wills. The Wills family amassed their vast fortune in the 18th century in the tobacco trade when slave produced tobacco was imported to Bristol from the American Republic. It was not until the Crimean War that cigarettes were smoke…