WILLOUGHBY, John (1643-78)

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. CSP Col. 1669–74, p. 496–7. 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.