Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby was Deputy Commissioner of

Kheri Kheri is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in Lakhimpur Kheri district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. History According to the 1908 British publication "The Imperial Gazetteer of India"(volume: XV): '' . H. Butler, Settlement Report (1901) ...

. He was son of Colonel R. F. Willoughby. The East India Company built

Willoughby Memorial Hall Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby was Deputy Commissioner of Kheri. He was son of Colonel R. F. Willoughby. The East India Company built Willoughby Memorial Hall in 1924 in memory of Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby Sir Rober ...

in 1924 in memory of

Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby was Deputy Commissioner of Kheri Kheri is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in Lakhimpur Kheri district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. History According to the 1908 British publication "The Imperial ...

, Deputy Commissioner of Kheri who was killed on 26 August 1920. The colonial authorities apprehended independence activists Naseeruddin Mauzi Nagar and Rajnarayan Mishra on charges of shooting the Deputy Commissioner, and sentenced them to death by hanging. On 26 April 1936, Willoughby Memorial Library was established. The Willoughby Memorial Hall was recently renamed the Naseeruddin Memorial Hall.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Willoughby, Robert William Douglas People from Lakhimpur Kheri People from Oxford People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford 1877 births 1920 deaths