About Leonard Willoughby
Lived 1509 – 1560 (aged 50–51). Leonard Willoughby was a politician.
Leonard Willoughby (c. 1509–1560) was an English landowner who sat as MP for Wareham in Dorset.
Origins
Born by 1509, he was the first son and heir of Nicholas Willoughby (died 10 June 1542) and his wife Robegia, daughter of William Satchfield. In it he left his paternal lands of Turners Puddle to his younger brother and executor John Willoughby and his other lands to his unmarried daughters. He was buried in the church of St John Baptist at Bere Regis.
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Leonard Willoughby was born in 1509.
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Leonard Willoughby died in 1560.
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Leonard Willoughby was a politician.
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