Professor Frank Willett, CBE, FRSE

Frank Willett, CBE, FRSE, described by an obituarist as the "leading Africanist of his generation", was the first Director of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, from 1976 to 1990, and titular Professor in the Hunterian Museum. Under his dierctorship, the Hunterian Art Gallery opened in 1981.

Frank Willett was born on 18 August 1925 in Bolton, where he spent his childhood and attended Bolton Municipal Secondary School. In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Frank was called up for military service to the Royal Air Force where he served as a Japanese translator.

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