Sir Thomas Willoughby, 2nd Baronet and 1st Baron Middleton, 2nd Baronet of Wollaton, Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire and Newark, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Tory political manager in the East Midlands., Privy Councillor., 4th Baron Middleton, member of the Middleton landed family
Dates: 9 April 1672 – 2 April 1729
Biography
Second son of Francis Willughby, the naturalist, and Emma Barnard. After the death of his elder brother Sir Francis in 1688, he inherited the baronetcy and the Wollaton and Middleton estates. He restored and occupied Wollaton Hall, represented Nottinghamshire and Newark in Parliament, and was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain in 1711/12 as Baron Middleton.
Notes / Sources
University of Nottingham, Willoughby Family history — https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/middleton/middletonfamilyhistory.aspx
University of Nottingham, biography of Sir Thomas Willoughby — https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/middleton/biographies/biographyofsirthomaswilloughby,1stbaronmiddleton(1672-1729).aspx
Cracroft's Peerage, Middleton — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/middleton1711.htm
Wikimedia Commons, Willoughby arms, Baron Middleton — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willoughby_arms,_Baron_Middleton.svg
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Wollaton and Middleton
Father: Francis Willughby, F.R.S.
Mother: Emma Barnard
Spouse(s): Elizabeth Rothwell, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Rothwell, Baronet
Children / next generation: Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton; Hon. Thomas Willoughby of Birdsall; Hon. Rothwell Willoughby
Armorial Registry
Willoughby of Middleton — Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton and 2nd Baronet, patent achievement of the Wollaton succession
Branch: Wollaton and Middleton; baronial succession founded by Thomas Willoughby
Issued / recorded: 1677-01-01
Thomas Willoughby, 2nd Baronet and 1st Baron Middleton — first patent holder of the composite arms
Branch: Middleton and Wollaton succession
Issued / recorded: 1711
Willoughby of Middleton — Thomas Willoughby, 4th Baron Middleton, collateral succession through the younger son of the 1st Baron
Branch: Younger-son line of the first Middleton baron through Thomas Willoughby of Birdsall
Issued / recorded: 1728
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