title: Mary Wills (philanthropist)
text: # Mary Wills (philanthropist)
  
  Dame Mary Monica Cunliffe-Owen, Mrs Wills DBE DStJ (18 January 1861 – 2 April 1931) was an English philanthropist.
  
  ## Early years
  
  She was born in Brompton, Middlesex, the daughter of Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen and Jenny Eliza Pamila Julia (von Reitzenstein). In 1886, she married Henry Herbert Wills, a member of the Wills tobacco family; the union was apparently childless. She spent her latter years at Rockdunder, Wrington, Somerset, and it was there that she died on 2 April 1931. Her sister, Victoria Mary Louise Adelaide Cunliffe-Owen, was married to the publisher Otto Kyllmann.
  
  