Willoughby

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Willoughby is the name of several places:

• Willoughby, New South Wales is a suburb Sydney, Australia.
• City of Willoughby - local government area
• Electoral district of Willoughby - New South Wales state electorate
• Cape Willoughby on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
• Willoughby, Ohio is a city in the United States.
• Lake Willoughby is a lake near the town of Westmore, Orleans County, Vermont.

There are several villages in England called Willoughby:

• Willoughby, Warwickshire
• Willoughby, Lincolnshire
• Willoughby Waterleys
• Willoughby-on-the-Wolds

[edit] People

• Willoughby is also the name of two families of British aristocrats,

1. whose head has held the title the Baron Willoughby de Eresby, since 1313 and
2. whose head held the title the Baron Willoughby of Parham, from 1547 until 1779.

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• The Willoughby family line is complex and inter-woven. A branch of the family who took their name from Willoughby-on-the-Wolds made their fortune from coal at Wollaton in Nottinghamshire and eventually built Wollaton Hall in the late sixteenth century on the back of coal revenues. As he had no son of his own Sir Francis Willoughby, the builder of Wollaton Hall married his daughter, Bridget, to Sir Percival Willoughby of Bore Place in Kent in order to secure the line. Burke's Peerage also validates that this line was the one which received the hereditary Baronetcy - Lord Middleton. The aristocratic line still survives and the current Baron lives near Malton in Yorkshire.

• William F. Willoughby was an American Progressive Era political scientist and scholar of public administration.

[edit] Fiction

• Willoughby Wooster is one of Bertie Wooster's uncles in the work of P. G. Wodehouse.
• John Willoughby is one of the main characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
• Willoughby is the name of the dog in the 1941 Tex Avery short The Heckling Hare.
• The Twilight Zone episode A Stop at Willoughby is about a man who dreams about a town named Willoughby during his train rides home.

[edit] References

• Marshall, P (1999), Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family, Nottingham Civic Society.

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