Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Willis, Rev. Robert
Willis, Rev. Robert, fellow Gonville & Caius Coll., Cambridge, 1826-32 (9th wrangler & B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829); adm. 'ad eundem' 21 June, 1832, F.R.S., Jacksonian professor of natural and experimental philosophy (Cambridge) 1837, Rede's lecturer 1861, president of the British Association 1862, died 28 Feb., 1875; for list of his works see Crockford.