William Willis was a Third Class steward of the Titanic. He died in the sinking. His birth was registered in the first quarter of 1853 and he was baptised on 19 June that same year. He was the son of John Knight Willis (b. 1815 in Poole, Dorset) and Luanna Light (b. 1820 in Eling, Hampshire) who had married in Southampton in 1845. He had two known siblings: John Light (b. 1846) and Laura (b. 1850). Willis died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified. William's widow Emma's whereabouts following the death of her husband are unclear, but she may have remarried.