Robert Willis

(1800-1875)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Willis, Robert, 1800-1875 NRA: Willis Robert (1800-1875) Mechanician and Architectural Historian DNB: Willis, Robert (1800–1875), engineer and architectural historian LBT ID: RoWilli1875 VIAF ID: 66503652 LOC ID: n85011186	B/BAP: 1800-02-27 DIED: 1875-02-28
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Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was a natural scientist and authority on medieval architecture appointed Jacksonian professor of natural and experimental philosophy in 1837.
REFERENCES TO Robert Willis: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 4