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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = John Jamieson
| name = Willis
| honorific_prefix = Ven. Archdeacon
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Willis,_John_Jamieson.jpg
| birth_date = 1872
| death_date = 1954
| address = CMS Mission, Maseno, Kisumu, British East Africa
| occupation = church
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1911.06.01
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = does not appear on printed lists
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
1911.03.20 proposed by C.W. Hobley, seconded by W. Ridgeway
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
John Jamieson Willis CBE (8 November 1872 – 12 November 1954) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934 and subsequently Assistant Bishop of Leicester.[1] He and William George Peel, Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during the Kikuyu controversy.<br />Born on 8 November 1872, the second son of Sir William Willis, Accountant-General of the Navy, and great-grandson of Joseph Tucker, Surveyor of the Navy[2][3] Willis was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1894, Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1899, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 1912.[4][5] He was ordained in 1895[6] and began his career with a curacy in Great Yarmouth. Then he began a long period of service as a CMS missionary in Africa eventually becoming Archdeacon of Kavirondo before his appointment to the episcopate in 1912.[7][8] In 1934 he returned to England to be Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He died on 12 November 1954.
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = John Jamieson
| name = Willis
| honorific_prefix = Ven. Archdeacon
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Willis,_John_Jamieson.jpg
| birth_date = 1872
| death_date = 1954
| address = CMS Mission, Maseno, Kisumu, British East Africa
| occupation = church
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1911.06.01
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = does not appear on printed lists
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
1911.03.20 proposed by C.W. Hobley, seconded by W. Ridgeway
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
John Jamieson Willis CBE (8 November 1872 – 12 November 1954) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934 and subsequently Assistant Bishop of Leicester.[1] He and William George Peel, Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during the Kikuyu controversy.<br />Born on 8 November 1872, the second son of Sir William Willis, Accountant-General of the Navy, and great-grandson of Joseph Tucker, Surveyor of the Navy[2][3] Willis was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1894, Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1899, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 1912.[4][5] He was ordained in 1895[6] and began his career with a curacy in Great Yarmouth. Then he began a long period of service as a CMS missionary in Africa eventually becoming Archdeacon of Kavirondo before his appointment to the episcopate in 1912.[7][8] In 1934 he returned to England to be Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He died on 12 November 1954.
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
