Thomas Willoughby (MP)

Thomas Willoughby (11 June 1694 – 2 December 1742) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1734.

Through his marriage, he inherited Birdsall House[2] Willoughby was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Cambridge University at a by-election on 19 December 1720.

[3] Willoughby died on 2 December 1742 and his wife ten years later on 25 April 1752.

They had seven children: Birdsall House became the chief residence of the Barons Middleton in 1923.

[2] This article about a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (1707–1800) representing an English constituency is a stub.