Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 – 20 December 1877), was an
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peer.
Early life
Willoughby was born at Apsley Hall,
Nottingham
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, on 28 August 1817.
He was the eldest son of Henry Willoughby (1780–1849) and Charlotte Eyre (d. 1845). Among his siblings were Charlotte Henrietta Willoughby (wife of Henry Willoughby Legard, son of
Sir Thomas Legard, 7th Baronet); Francis Digby Willoughby (a Captain in the
9th Lancers
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); the Rev. Hon. Charles James Willoughby (who married Charlotte Payne Seymour); Emma Willoughby (who the Rev. Richard Machell); Hon. Harriet Cassandra Willoughby (who married Henry's brother-in-law, Godfrey Wentworth Bayard Bosville, ''
de jure
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13th Baronet); and the Rev. Hon. Percival George Willoughby (who married Sophia Beaumont, sister of
Frederick Beaumont
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).
His paternal grandparents were the Rev. Hon. James Willoughby (a grandson of the
1st Baron Middleton) and Eleanor Hobson (a daughter of James Hobson of
Kirkbymoorside
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).
[ George Edward Cokayne, editor, ''The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes'' (); reprint, ]Gloucester
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: Alan Sutton Publishing
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, 1983), volume III, page 137. His maternal grandparents were the Ven.
John Eyre,
Archdeacon of Nottingham
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...
, and the former Charlotte Armytage (a daughter of
Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet
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Family
On 10 April ...
).
[Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' ]Wilmington, Delaware
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: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd
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, 2003, volume 2, page 2679.
He was educated at
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, which he entered in 1836.
Career
He succeeded to the title of
Baron Middleton
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in 1856, on the passing of his cousin, the
7th Baron Middleton, who died without legitimate issue.
[Middleton at ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953.] He lived in the Willoughby family seat at Birdsall House, which he preferred to
Wollaton Park
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,
Nottinghamshire
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, the family seat he inherited from his cousin.
He was appointed
Honorary Colonel of the
1st Administrative Brigade of Yorkshire (East Riding) Artillery Volunteers on 17 December 1862, and his son the Hon. Digby Willoughby, (later 9th Baron), a former captain in the
Scots Fusilier Guards
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, was appointed second major in the brigade on 30 July 1869. The 9th Baron later commanded the unit as Lt-Col, became
Honorary Colonel in turn on 29 May 1879, and held the post into the 20th Century.
[''Army List''.]
Personal life
On 3 August 1843, he married the Hon. Julia Louisa Bosville (1824–1901) in London
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. Julia was the daughter of Alexander William Robert Bosville (the eldest, but illegitimate, son of the 3rd Baron Macdonald and Louisa Maria La Coast, herself purported to be the illegitimate daughter of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
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Life
Youth
Prince Wi ...
).[
* Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton (1844–1922), who married ]Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming
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1795 – 21 April 1842) was a Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator. Lady Cumming collected and studied Devonian fish fossils from the Old Red Sandstone o ...
, a daughter of Sir Alexander Gordon-Cumming, 3rd Baronet, in 1869.Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet
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, in 1895.Lord Charles Russell
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(third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford), in 1876.Sir Charles Strickland, 8th Baronet
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, in 1898.Charles James Murray
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Early life
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(son of Charles Murray and grandson of the 5th Earl of Dunmore) and Lady Anne Finch (a daughter of the 6th Earl of Aylesford) in 1904.Digby
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References
External links
Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (1817-1877), Huntmaster
at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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