William Willett Jr. exhausting his appeals he served 14 months in Sing Sing. Willett then went into the real estate business. He died in New York City on February 12, 1938 and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. William Willett Jr. William Forte Willett Jr. (November 27, 1869 – February 12, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from New York. William Willett was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 27, 1869. He attended the public schools of his native city and then graduated from the law department of New York University, New York City, in 1895. He was admitted to the
Allan Willett Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown as Lord Lieutenant of Kent. Willett was appointed Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John in 2003. He is also the former Chairman of the Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund (of which he remains trustee), and was Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (a Territorial Army reserve battalion based at Canterbury) 2005-10, and Ambassador for Kent. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for his service as lord-lieutenant. In January 2004 Willett created a charitable foundation whose principal beneficiaries are persons or organisations