Sir 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 Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire, a successful lawyer, he was trained in the

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at 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

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, in 1318 Willoughby was one of the two members of the

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for

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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 Sir Richard de Willoughby (c. 1290 – 14 March 1362) was an English landowner, politician and judge from Nottinghamshire, who was Chief Justice of the King's Bench for three periods between 1332 and 1340. Origins Born about 1290, his fathe ...

(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 people 14th-century English judges