2025 is the 80th anniversary of VE Day and to mark this we are posting a series about three people connected to Middleton Hall who served in the Second World War. The first of these is about Michael Guy Percival Willoughby, 11th Lord Middleton. Michael was born on 21st October 1887 and was the second son of Godfrey Willoughby, 10th Lord Middleton, and Ida Ross. He married Angela Hall on 28th April 1920. Following his father’s death on 11th November 1924, and because his elder