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Revision as of 02:28, 27 July 2020
Francis WILLOUGHBY or WILLUGHBY 1635-72
Biographical Note
Of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire; member of a long-established gentry family that included another Francis Willoughby (1614-65). Willoughby was s noted naturalist, and associate of John Ray.
Books
The Willoughby family library was continuously developed from the 14th century onwards (some of the medieval manuscripts survive and are today in Nottingham University Library). The library was reorganised and catalogued at Wollaton in the 1690s by Willoughby’s son, Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton (1672-1729).
Sources
- Hanna, R. & T. Turville-Petre (eds), The Wollaton medieval manuscripts, 2010.