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 common law at the Inns of Court and called himself after the place where his father owned land.
[1] Willoughby had a brother who retained their father’s name and was known as Ralph Bugge.
[2] A notable serjeant-at-law, in 1318 Willoughby was one of the two members of the Parliament of England for Nottinghamshire and in 1323 was appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland.
[1] Willoughby was the father of Richard de Willoughby (c. 1290 – 1362), Lord Chief Justice of England.