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WILLOUGHBY , the name of an See also: English See also: family long settled in See also: Nottinghamshire, and now represented by Baron See also: Middleton
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Having exchanged his name of See also: Bugge for that of Willoughby, See also: Richard de Willoughby became a See also: judge during the reign of See also: Edward II. and See also: purchased the manors of Wollaton in Nottinghamshire and of Risley in See also: Derbyshire
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His son, Richard de Willoughby (d
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1362), was See also: justice of the See also: common pleas under Edward III
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Richard's descendant, Dorothy, who became the heiress of the family estates, married Robert Willoughby of See also: Bore Place, Kent, and their descendant, See also: Sir See also: Thomas Willoughby,
See also: Bart
.
(c
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1670-1729), of Wollaton, was created Baron Middleton in 1712
.
In 1877 his descendant, Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby (h
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1844), became the 9th baron
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This title must be distinguished from that of Viscount Midleton, See also: borne by the Brodrick family
.
Sir Hugh Willoughby, the See also: seaman, was a member of this family
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He was a son of Sir See also: Henry Willoughby (d
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1528), and a See also: grandson of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Wollaton
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His early services were as a soldier on the Scottish See also: borders, but he soon turned his thoughts to the See also: sea, and was appointed captain of a See also: fleet of three See also: ships which set out in 1553 with the See also: object of discovering a See also: north-eastern passage to See also: Cathay and See also: India
.
Two of the three ships reached the See also: coast of See also: Lapland, where it was proposed to winter, and here Willoughby and his companions (lied of cold and See also: starvation soon after See also: January 1 554
.
A few years later their remains were found, and with them Willoughby's Journal, which is printed in vol. i. of R
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See also: Hakluyt's See also: Principal Navigation
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:another famous member of this family was Sir Nesbit Josiah Willoughby (1777-1849), who entered the See also: British See also: navy in 1790 and was See also: present at the See also: battle of See also: Copenhagen
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In 1800, however, he was dismissed from the service by the See also: sentence of a See also: court-See also: martial for his insolent conduct towards a superio.r officer, a previous offence of this kind having been punished less severely
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In 1803, on the renewal of war, as a volunteer he joined an English See also: squadron bound for the West Indies, and was soon admitted again to the navy; his courage and promptness at Cape See also: Francais were responsible for saving goo lives, and he distinguished himself on other occasions, being soon restored to his former See also: rank in the service
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After further services in the West Indies, during which he displayed marked gallantry on several occasions, Willoughby was tried by court-martial at Cape See also: Town in ,8o8 on charges of cruelty; he seems to have taken a See also: great delight in inflicting punishment, but he was acquitted with the advice to be more moderate in future in his language
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Again iii the West Indies, where he commanded. the Nereidefrigate, he was responsible for the heroic defence made by his See also: ship against a much stronger French force at See also: Port See also: Louis,
See also: Mauritius, in See also: August 181o, when 222 out of his See also: crew of 281 men were disabled before he surrendered
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Undeterred by the severe wounds which he had received, and seeing no prospect of active service with the British fleet, Willoughby offered his services in 1812 to the See also: Russian See also: government, and while serving with the Russian army he was captured by the French
.
He was taken to See also: France, whence he escaped to See also: England
.
Having seen a little more service in the navy, he was knighted in 1827, was made a See also: rear-See also: admiral in 1847, and died unmarried in See also: London on the 19th of May 1849
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