 The late Sir John Wills, Bart.of Langford Court, Somerset, grandson of the Sir George Wills who purchased Manor House for the University, gave his permission for this motif to be taken from his family's coat of arms and used as part of the badge of the hall.The University also took the "sun in splendour" from the coat of arms of the Wills family when it was granted its coat of arms in 1909.