Thomas Willoughby English

England

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 politician, was the second son of Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton

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...

 and Elizabeth Rothwell. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College, Cambridge

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. He was MP for the university

Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1720 and from 1721 to 1727; from 1727 to 1730 he was MP for Tamworth

Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

He married Elizabeth Southby of Birdsall

Birdsall, North Yorkshire

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 (d. 25 April 1752) and had seven children:

• Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton
  Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton
  Henry 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)
• Francis Willoughby (b. 1727), of Hesley Hall, married on 25 May 1762 Octavia Fisher and had issue
• Rev. James Willoughby (1731–1816), rector of Guiseley, married Eleanor Hobson and had issue
• Cassandra Willoughby
• Elizabeth Willoughby, married in 1750 Rev. Edmund Garforth
• Emma Willoughby (d. 1781), married Rev. N. Hodgson
• Antonina Willoughby, married in 1765 Rev. Henry Hewgill

Through his marriage, he inherited Birdsall House, which would later become the chief residence of the Barons Middleton.