Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton
Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton( 28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall), was an English peer.
He was born at Apsley Hall, Nottingham, the eldest son of Henry Willoughby( 15 December 1780- 1849) and Charlotte Eyre( died 1845) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He succeeded to the title of Baron Middleton in 1856, on the passing of his cousin, the 7th Baron Middleton, who died without legitimate issue.
He lived in the Willoughby family seat at Birdsall House, which he preferred to Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire, 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, was appointed second major in the brigade on 30 July 1869.
The 9th Baron later commanded the unit as Lt- Col, became Hon Col in turn on 29 May 1879, and held the post into the 20th Century.
Thomas Willoughby (MP)
Thomas Willoughby (11 June 1694 – 2 December 1742) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1734.
Willoughby was the second son of Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton and his wife Elizabeth Rothwell, daughter of Sir Richard Rothwell, 1st Baronet, MP.
He was educated at Eton College and was admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge on 1 November 1711.
He matriculated there in 1712 and was awarded MA in 1720.
In 1719, he married Elizabeth Sotheby, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Sotheby of Birdsall of Birdsall, North Yorkshire.
Through his marriage, he inherited Birdsall House
Willoughby was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Cambridge University at a by-election on 19 December 1720.
He was returned unopposed again for the university at the 1722 general election.
At the 1727 general election, Willoughby stood for Parliament at Tamworth on his father's interest and was elected MP.
There is little record of his activities in Parliament and he did not stand in 1734.
Willoughby died on 2 December 1742 and his wife ten years later on 25 April 1752.
They had seven children:
Birdsall House became the chief residence of the Barons Middleton in 1923.
Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton
Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton (9 April 1672 – 2 April 1729), was a Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1711 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Middleton.
Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton
Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton (19 December 1726 – 14 June 1800), was an English nobleman, the son of Hon.
Thomas Willoughby.
He was born at York in 1726 and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1745.
He succeeded his father in 1742, inheriting Birdsall House.
In 1757, he served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire.
He succeeded his cousin Thomas Willoughby to the Middleton barony and estates (Wollaton Park and Middleton Hall, Warwickshire) in 1781.
He married Dorothy Cartwright in 1756 and lived in the family seat at Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire.
They had three children:
His memorial is in St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton.
Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron Willoughby of Parham
Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron Willoughby of Parham( 1696 – 29 January 1775) was an English peer of the House of Lords.
On the death of Charles Willoughby, 10th Baron Willoughby of Parham, who died without male heir on 9 December 1679, the title should have passed to the descendants of Sir Ambrose Willoughby of Matson, younger brother of Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham who died in 1603.
The title instead passed to the family of Thomas Willoughby, who became the 11th baron.
Sir Ambrose Willoughby had two sons, Edward and Richard.
Edward's son was Henry, who emigrated to the Colony of Virginia in 1676, then one of the Thirteen Colonies, whose whereabouts were unknown.
Henry died in Hull Creek, Virginia on 26 November 1685, aged 59.
His son, also Henry, was then aged 20.
Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of William Pigeon of Stepney, with whom he had a son who was also named Henry.
Henry Willoughby had twice been master of the Company of Brewers in London, a Justice of the Peace and colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Militia of the Tower Hamlets.
Henry Willoughby married Susannah, daughter Robert Gresswell of Middlesex and had a daughter, Elizabeth who married John Halsey of Tower Hill.
Henry Willoughby first petitioned for his seat in the House of Lords in 1733, his case was not heard.
His petition was accepted after the death of Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham and he took his seat on 25 April 1767 to become the 16th baron.
Henry Willoughby died on 29 January 1775, aged 79, without male heir and the title passed to his nephew.
Thomas Willoughby, 4th Baron Middleton
Thomas Willoughby, 4th Baron Middleton( 19 December 1728 – 2 November 1781), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1762 to 1774, when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Middleton.
Willoughby was the second son of Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton.
He was educated at Bury St Edmund's School, and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1745.
Willoughby was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire at a by-election on 13 December 1762.
He was returned unopposed again at the general elections of 1768 and 1774.
When his brother died on 16 December 1774 he succeeded to the Barony and was called to the House of Lords.
He married Georgina, daughter of Evelyn Chadwick of West Leake, Nottinghamshire, in 1770 and lived in the family seat at Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire.
They had no children and was succeeded in the barony and estates by his cousin, Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton.
Francis Willoughby, 3rd Baron Middleton
Francis Willoughby, 3rd Baron Middleton( 25 January 1726 – 16 December 1774), was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton.
He was educated at Bury St Edmund's School, and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1744.
He succeeded his father in 1768, inheriting the family seat at Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire, where he subsequently lived.
He died unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, Thomas Willoughby, 4th Baron Middleton.
William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby KG( c. 1370 – 4 December 1409) was an English baron.
Digby Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton
Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton( 24 August 1844 – 28 May 1922), was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton.
He was educated at Eton.
He served in the 1860s with the Scots Fusilier Guards, retiring with the rank of captain.
On 30 July 1869 he was appointed second major 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 Eliza Maria Gordon- Cumming( 16 June 1847 – 27 April 1922 Birdsall House, 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 Wollaton Park, Nottingham, and died there.
He was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother Godfrey Ernest Percival Willoughby.
Henry Willoughby, 6th Baron Middleton
Henry Willoughby, 6th Baron Middleton( 24 April 1761 – 19 June 1835), was an English nobleman, the only son of Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton.
He married Jane Lawley, daughter of Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet, and lived in the family seat at Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire, which he had extensively remodeled under the direction of Sir Jeffry Wyattville.
Lord Middleton was a keen fox hunter and was a regular follower of the Warwickshire Hunt.
In 1811, he purchased the pack from the hunt's founder John Corbet, for 1,200 guineas.
He remained the hunt's Master until 1821, when following a fall from his favourite horse" Billy Button", he passed on the mastership to Evelyn Shirley of Ettington Hall.
Lord Middleton had no children.
Lord Middleton's memorial is in St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton.

Question: What is the date of death of Henry Willoughby, 5Th Baron Middleton's father?
Answer: 2 December 1742