WILLOUGHBY, George (1639-74)

George Willoughby, the eldest of the eight sons born to William Willoughby, 5th (CP 6th) Baron Willoughby of Parham, remained in England while his father and younger brothers went to Barbados, his father having settled upon him much of his estate in Lincolnshire upon his marriage in 1666. V.L. Oliver, Hist. of the Island of Antigua, iii. 242. George Willoughby did not attend the brief parliamentary sessions of late 1673 and early 1674, and at the call of the House on 12 Jan. 1674 he was marked as excused without further explanation. He may already have been ill with whatever ailment cut short his life sometime in 1674, aged 35, when his title descended to his underage son, John Willoughby, 7th (CP 8th) Baron Willoughby of Parham, who died as a minor early in 1678, whereupon the title passed to the nearest male kin, his uncle, also named John Willoughby.