The 31st May 2026 is the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. It took place on the 31st May 1916 and was the largest naval battle of the First World War. Henry Ernest Digby Hugh Willoughby was the eldest son and heir of Godfrey Willoughby, 10th Lord Middleton. Henry was a Commander in the Royal Navy and specifically on the HMS Indefatigable. He was killed in action when the Indefatigable was sunk at the Battle of Jutland. As a result of Henry’s death, it was his younge

On 7th June 1924, the Tamworth Herald newspaper reported that Godfrey Ernest Percival Willoughby, 10th Lord Middleton, had announced that he intended to sell a number of the Willoughby family’s ancient manorial estates including Wollaton and Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire and Middleton in Warwickshire. The reason he decided to sell was said to have been as a result of the costs of the death duties that he was required to pay following the death of Digby Wentworth Willough