Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton (24 August 1844 – 28 May 1922), was an

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nobleman, the eldest son of Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton.Middleton at ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. He was educated at

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. He served in the 1860s with the

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, retiring with the rank of

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. On 30 July 1869 he was appointed second

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in the 1st Administrative Brigade of Yorkshire (East Riding) Artillery Volunteers, of which his father the 8th Baron was honorary colonel. The 9th Baron later commanded the unit as lieutenant-colonel, became Hon Col in turn on 29 May 1879, and held the post into the 20th Century. On 5 August 1869 married

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(16 June 1847 – 27 April 1922

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, Birdsall). The couple had no children. He succeeded his father in 1877 and lived in the Willoughby family seat at Birdsall House which he preferred to

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, and died there. He was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother Godfrey Ernest Percival Willoughby.

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