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Richard Willoughby (died 1325), otherwise Richard Bugge of Willoughby, was an English landowner, lawyer, judge, and briefly a member of parliament. The son of Richard Bugge of

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, Nottinghamshire, a successful lawyer, he was trained in the

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and called himself after the place where his father owned land.Cornelius Brown, ''A History of Nottinghamshire'' (1891), p. 68 Willoughby had a brother who retained their father’s name and was known as Ralph Bugge. A notable serjeant-at-law, in 1318 Willoughby was one of the two members of the

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and in 1323 was appointed as

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. He died in 1325. Willoughby was the father of Richard de Willoughby (c. 1290 – 1362),

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.S. J. Payling
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Willoughby, Richard Year of birth uncertain 1260s births 1325 deaths English MPs 1318 13th-century English landowners 14th-century English judges 13th-century English lawyers