Willoughby

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Willoughby is the name of several places:

• Willoughby, New South Wales is a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
• City of Willoughby - local government area
• Electoral district of Willoughby - New South Wales state electorate
• Cape Willoughby on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
• Willoughby, Ohio is a city in the United States.
• Lake Willoughby is a lake near the town of Westmore, Orleans County, Vermont.

Willoughby Spit is a peninsula of land in Norfolk, Virginia.

There are several villages in England called Willoughby:

• Willoughby, Warwickshire
• Willoughby, Lincolnshire
• Willoughby Waterleys
• Willoughby-on-the-Wolds

Contents 1 Dogs 2 British Aristocrats 3 Other persons 4 Fiction 5 References

[edit] Dogs

Willoughby is also the name of the lapdog belonging to actress and voice expert Margo Annett. Many well known actors have crossed paths with the mutt, and he has therefore developed something of an iconic status in the theatrical community. He is named after John Willoughby, a character in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility.

See also Willoughby the Dog for Willoughby, the animated cartoon character from Warner Brothers' 'Looney Toons'.

[edit] British Aristocrats

• Willoughby is surname or part of the title of several families of British aristocrats:

1. Baron Willoughby de Eresby (created 1313) is one of the titles of the Earl of Ancaster.
2. The title Baron Willoughby of Parham existed from 1547 until 1779.
3. The title Baron Willoughby de Broke has since the 17th century been held by a family whose surname is Verney
4. The surname of Baron Middleton is Willoughby. The family formerly owned Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire. The heads have been baronets since 1677 and barons since 1711.

Some of these are ultimately branches of the same family.

[edit] Other persons

• Thomas Willoughby (Virginia), an early settler in Virginia.
• William F. Willoughby was an American Progressive Era political scientist and scholar of public administration.
• William Wesley Willoughby was a player in the National Basketball Association, best known for being one of the first players to jump directly from high school into the NBA.
• Holly Willoughby (1981-) British TV Presenter.

[edit] Fiction

• Willoughby Wooster is one of Bertie Wooster's uncles in the work of P. G. Wodehouse.
• John Willoughby is one of the main characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
• Willoughby is the name of the dog in the 1941 Tex Avery short The Heckling Hare.
• The Twilight Zone episode A Stop at Willoughby is about a man who dreams about a town named Willoughby during his train rides home.
• Inspector Willoughby, a Walter Lantz creation.
• Sathington Willoughby, a fictitious politician mentioned in two songs by Primus

[edit] References

• Marshall, P (1999), Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family, Nottingham Civic Society.

• Annett, M (2004), An Actor's Guide to Auditions and Interviews, A & C Black.