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Major George Seton Wills, TD                        1911-1979
George was born on 18 May 1911, the younger son of Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet of Hazelwood, and Caroline Fanny Maud de Winton.
He served in WW2 as a Major in The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. He fought at El Alamein and was mentioned in dispatches. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration.
George inherited Littlecote, upon the death of his father, but lived at Eastridge Manor on the Littlecote Estate. Littlecote House was opened to the public, and George gave it to his son on his 21st birthday, to avoid death duties.
George, together with his son, purchased Inchrory (The Glenavon Estate) near Tomintoul, Banff shire in Scotland, which is next door to Balmoral Castle, using the sale proceeds of L'Oiseau Bleu, Menton, in France.
He never inherited the Baronetcy, because he predeceased Sir Edward, his elder brother; Thus, the title went to his son, David Seton, as Sir Edward had no male heir.
(1st Wife)
Lilah Mary Hare                                              1915-2002
Mary was born on 26 August 1915, the daughter of Captain Percy Richard Hare and Matilda Gertrude Tiarks, of Villa mes Délices, Mentone, France.
I have identified the following children.
  David Seton Born 29 Dec 1939   Littlecote Married Gillian Eastoe

Birth of Parents
George Seton Wills b: 18 May 1911                   1911 2Q Hungerford 2c 267
son of Ernest Salter Wills and Caroline Fanny Maud de Winton

Lilah Mary Hare b: 26 Aug 1915                   1915 3Q Bromley 2a 1031
daughter of Captain Percy Richard Hare and Matilda Gertrude Tiarks, of Villa mes Délices, Mentone, France
Marriage
30 Oct 1935
George Seton Wills
Lilah Mary Hare 		                  1935 4Q Hungerford 2c 875

The Times - Thursday October 31, 1935  Read about Marriage

Children
David Seton Wills
(5th) Baronet of Hazelwood		 b: 29 Dec 1939               Littlecote                   1940 1Q Marlbro' 5a 263
son of George Seton Wills and Lilah Mary Hare

The Times, Saturday, December 30, 1939   BIRTHS
    WILLS - On December 29, 1939, at Littleecote, to LILAH (née Hare), wife of George Seton Wills - a son.


Marriage ends in divorce in 1946.   Lilah marries Colonel Nigel Victor Stopford Sackville, on 14 November 1946.
Ditchley Park
Ditchley Park, Enstone, Oxfordshire, the last major estate acquired by the Will family. It was donated in the 1950's by David Wills to the nation, and is now owned by the Ditchley Foundation, an Anglo-American educational trust which seeks to further transatlantic understanding through a programme of conferences and seminars.


Victoria Katherine Allbut, (nee Hare)     1914-1990     (2nd Wife)
Victoria was born on 7 February 1914, the daughter of Captain Percy Richard Hare and Matilda Gertrude Tiarks, of Villa mes Délices, Mentone, France.
I have not identified any children:

Birth of New Wife
Victoria Katherine Allbut, (nee Hare) b: 7 Feb 1914                   1914 1Q Bromley 2a 1129
daughter of Captain Percy Richard Hare and Matilda Gertrude Tiarks, of Villa mes Délices, Mentone, France

Marriage
23 Jun 1961
George Seton Wills
Victoria Catherine Allbut 		London                 1961 2Q Westminster 5c 659

The Times, Saturday, June 24, 1961   MARRIAGES
            Mr. G. S. Wills and Mrs. V. K. Allbut
The marriage took place yesterday at Caxton Hall register office of Mr. George Seton Wills, of 37 St. James Street, S.W., and Mrs. Victoria Katherine Allbut, of Ramsbury Wiltshire.

Death
George Seton Wills Died 4 February 1979,  at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon, Wiltshire
Buried in Froxfield Churchyard, on the Littlecote Estate, near Hungerford, Berkshire
1979 1Q Swindon 23 2523

Death
Victoria Catherine (Allbut) Will Died 24 Dec 1990,  at a nursing home in Aldbourne, Wiltshire
Buried in Froxfield Churchyard, on the Littlecote Estate, near Hungerford, Berkshire

SPECIAL THANKS  to Clifford Allison, for the photo and many of the details provided above.