Christopher Willoughby (MP)
Christopher Willoughby (by 1508 – 1570), of West Knoyle, Wiltshire, was an English politician.
Family
[edit]Willoughby was the illegitimate son of Sir William Willoughby of Turners Puddle, Dorset. He was probably educated at Lincoln's Inn. He married twice. Firstly he married a woman named Alice, the widow of one Bulstrode. At some point by 1547, he had married his second wife, Isabel née Wykes, a daughter of Nicholas Wykes of Dodington, Gloucestershire, widow of John Ringwood of Sherfield English, Hampshire, by whom he had four sons and four daughters.
Career
[edit]He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wilton in 1545 and for Wiltshire in November 1554.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "WILLOUGHBY, Christopher (by 1508-70), of West Knoyle, Wilts. - History of Parliament Online". Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
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