suc. nephew Jan. 1678 as 8th (CP 9th) Baron WILLOUGHBY OF PARHAM
Never sat.
b. 29 Dec. 1643, 5th but 2nd surv. s. of William Willoughby, later 5th (CP 6th)1 Bar. Willoughby of Parham, and Anne, da. of Sir Philip Carey‡; bro. of George Willoughby, 6th (CP 7th) Bar. Willoughby of Parham, and Charles Willoughby, 9th (CP 10th) Bar. Willoughby of Parham. educ. unknown. m. Anne Bolterton (d.1683) of Bermuda, s.p. d. c. 16 Sept. 1678; will 10 June, pr. 7 and 19 Nov. 1678.2
Mbr. council of Barbados 1673–d.
Col. regt. of ft. Barbados 1673–d.3
Associated with: Knaith Hall, Knaith, Lincs. and Barbados.
An ‘eminent’ planter in Barbados, with 450 acres, from 1673 this younger son of William Willoughby, 5th (CP 6th) Baron Willoughby of Parham, the governor of Barbados, sat on the council of Barbados and commanded a regiment of infantry.4 Willoughby wrote his will on 10 June 1678 at Barbados before setting out for home to claim his peerage but died very shortly after his arrival in England. The will was published on 28 Sept., certified by those who had witnessed his death at his maternal uncle John Carey’s estate at Stanwell, Middlesex. He bequeathed his estates in the West Indies to his wife, Anne, a number of small bequests and goods to his surviving sisters and friends in Barbados and England, and his inherited lands in England and the household goods ‘in my manor house of Knaith’ to his younger, and only remaining, brother and heir to the title, Charles Willoughby, 9th (CP 10th) Baron Willoughby of Parham.
C.G.D.L.- 1 For an adjustment to the traditional numbering of the Barons Willoughby of Parham, see the appendix to volume 1 of this work.
- 2 TNA, PROB 11/358; V.L. Oliver, Hist. of the Island of Antigua, iii. 242–3.
- 3 CSP Col. 1669–74, pp. 475–6; 1677–80, 151, 303; CSP Dom. 1679–80, p. 80.
- 4 CSP Col. 1669–74, p. 496–7.