Baron Middleton
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Middleton, Warwickshire
Middleton is a small village in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire, England.At the time of Domesday Middleton was under a Norman Overlord Hugh de Grantmaisnil who had several holdings in Warwickshire. When he died it passed to the Marmions of Tamworth. In 1291 the...
in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain
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. It was created in 1711 for Sir Thomas Willoughby, 2nd Baronet
Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton
Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton was a Baron in the Peerage of Great Britain.He was born at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire, the second son of Francis Willughby, the famed mathematician and naturalist , and was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Jesus...
, who had previously represented Nottinghamshire
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and Newark
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in Parliament. The Middleton Baronetcy, of Wollaton in the County of Nottingham, had been created in the Baronetage of England in 1677 for his elder brother Francis Willoughby, with special remainder to the latter's only brother Thomas, who succeeded him in 1688. Lord Middleton was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He sat as Member of Parliament
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for Nottinghamshire and Tamworth
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. On the death of his younger son, the fourth Baron (who had succeeded his elder brother), the line of the eldest son of the first Baron failed. He was succeeded by his cousin Henry Middleton, the fifth Baron. He was the son of the Hon. Thomas Willoughby (c. 1694–1742), second son of the first Baron. On the death of his son, the sixth Baron, this line of the family also failed.
The late Baron was succeeded by his cousin Digby Willoughby, the seventh Baron. He was the son of a younger son of the aforementioned the Hon. Thomas Willoughby, second son of the first Baron. He was a captain
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in the Royal Navy
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. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his cousin, the eighth Baron. He was the grandson of Reverend the Hon. James Willoughby, younger son of the aforesaid the Hon. Thomas Willoughby, second son of the first Baron. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the ninth Baron, who in his turn was succeeded by his younger brother, the tenth Baron. On the latter's death the titles passed to his second but eldest surviving son, the eleventh Baron. He was Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire
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. the titles are held by his grandson, the thirteenth Baron, who succeeded in 2011.
The Middleton family owned Wollaton Hall
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Wollaton Hall is a country house standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton, Nottingham, England. Wollaton Park is the area of parkland that the stately house stands in. The house itself is a natural history museum, with other museums in the out-buildings...
, a stately home on which Mentmore Towers
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was based, until it was sold by the 11th Baron in 1925. The current family seat is Birdsall Hall, near Malton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Extensive estate and personal papers of the Willoughby family are held in the Middleton collection at the department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
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Baronets of Wollaton (1677)
- Sir Francis Willoughby, 1st Baronet, of Wollaton (1668–1688)
- Sir Thomas Willoughby, 2nd Baronet, of WollatonThomas Willoughby, 1st Baron MiddletonThomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton was a Baron in the Peerage of Great Britain.He was born at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire, the second son of Francis Willughby, the famed mathematician and naturalist , and was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Jesus...
(1670–1729) (created Baron Middleton in 1711)
Barons Middleton (1711)
- Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron MiddletonThomas Willoughby, 1st Baron MiddletonThomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton was a Baron in the Peerage of Great Britain.He was born at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire, the second son of Francis Willughby, the famed mathematician and naturalist , and was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Jesus...
(1670–1729) - Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron MiddletonFrancis Willoughby, 2nd Baron MiddletonFrancis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton was a baron in the Peerage of Great Britain.He was educated at Eton and at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating MA in 1712....
(1692–1758) - Francis Willoughby, 3rd Baron MiddletonFrancis Willoughby, 3rd Baron MiddletonFrancis Willoughby, 3rd Baron Middleton 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....
(1726–1774) - Thomas Willoughby, 4th Baron MiddletonThomas Willoughby, 4th Baron MiddletonThomas Willoughby, 4th Baron Middleton was an English nobleman, 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...
(1728–1781) - Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron MiddletonHenry Willoughby, 5th Baron MiddletonHenry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton was an English nobleman, the son of Hon. Thomas Willoughby.He was born at York in 1726 and entered Jesus College, Cambridge in 1745. In 1757, he served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire...
(1726–1800) - Henry Willoughby, 6th Baron MiddletonHenry Willoughby, 6th Baron MiddletonHenry Willoughby, 6th Baron Middleton was an English nobleman, the only son of Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton....
(1761–1835) - Digby Willoughby, 7th Baron MiddletonDigby Willoughby, 7th Baron MiddletonDigby Willoughby, 7th Baron Middleton was an English nobleman and sailor, the eldest son of Francis Willoughby of Hesley and Octavia Fisher, and grandson of Thomas Willoughby....
(1769–1856) - Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron MiddletonHenry Willoughby, 8th Baron MiddletonHenry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton was an English peer.He was born at Apsley Hall, Nottingham, the eldest son of Henry Willoughby and Charlotte Eyre and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge...
(1817–1877) - Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron MiddletonDigby Willoughby, 9th Baron MiddletonDigby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton....
(1844–1922) - Godfrey Ernest Percival Willoughby, 10th Baron Middleton (1847–1924)
- Michael Guy Percival Willoughby, 11th Baron MiddletonMichael Willoughby, 11th Baron MiddletonColonel Michael Guy Percival Willoughby, 11th Baron Middleton, KG, MC, TD, ED was a British peer and soldier....
(1887–1970) - (Digby) Michael Godfrey John Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton (1921–2011) http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/133901/middleton
- Michael Charles James Willoughby, 13th Baron Middleton (b. 1948)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. James William Michael Willoughby (b. 1976)
Second in line to the barony is the present holder's grandson Thomas Michael Jonathan Willoughby (b. 2007)