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willes

n. (plural of wille English)

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Willes

Willes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Christine Willes, Canadian television, theatre and film actress
  • Edmund Willes (1832–1896), English cricketer
  • Edward Willes (priest) (1693–1773), Anglican Bishop of St David's, Bishop of Bath and Wells, prominent cryptanalyst
  • Edward Willes (1702–1768), English-born judge who became Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer
  • Edward Willes (1723–1787), MP for Old Sarum, Aylesbury and Leominster, Solicitor-General 1766, judge of the Court of King's Bench
  • Sir George Willes (1823–1901), Royal Navy officer
  • Sir George Atkinson-Willes (1847–1921), Royal Navy officer
  • Jabez Willes (1790–1842), New York politician
  • Sir James Shaw Willes (1814–1872), English judge
  • Jean Willes (1923–1989), American film actress
  • John Willes (disambiguation), several people
    • John Willes (cricketer) (1778–1852), English cricketer
    • Sir John Willes (judge) (1685–1761), English lawyer and judge
    • Sir John Willes (1721–1784), MP for Banbury 1746–1754
  • Mark H. Willes (born 1941), Latter-day Saint business leader
  • William Willes (1814–1890), Latter-day Saint songwriter
  • William S. S. Willes (1819–1871), known as Sidney Willes, Mormon pioneer

Usage examples of "willes".

Willes family dominated the cryptanalytic branch, others worked in it.

Because the Appropriate Technology Institute was five small rooms in the back of a rented warehouse, Willes Willgel had arrived early and sat waiting for the mysterious Patron Enver.

But on May 7, as Willes was testifying to the cryptanalysis of the three most incriminatory letters of all, and the bishop felt the noose tightening around him, he persisted in questioning Willes on the validity of the reading though the House had supported Willes' refusal to answer.

Most of the facts about the alleged conspiracy had come from his intercepted correspondence, and the most inculpatory evidence had been extracted from the portions in cipher by Willes and by Anthony Corbiere, a former foreign service official in his mid-thirties who had also been appointed a Decypherer in 1719.