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Francis Willughby (sometimes spelt Willoughby, Latin: Franciscus Willughbeius) [a] FRS (22 November 1635 – 3 July 1672) was an English ornithologist, ichthyologist and mathematician, and an early student of linguistics and games. He was born and raised at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, the only son of an affluent country family.
Francis Willoughby (1547–1596), industrialist and coalowner; Francis Willoughby (1613–1671), deputy governor of Massachusetts; Francis Willughby (1635–1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist; Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton (1692–1758), Old Etonian; Francis Willoughby, 3rd Baron Middleton (1726–1774), English nobleman
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist is a 2018 biography, written by Tim Birkhead, about Francis Willughby (1635–1672), an English ornithologist, ichthyologist, entomologist, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Birkhead's work is the first book-length biography of Willughby.
Francis was thus the great-grandson of Sir Henry Willoughby (1451-1528), a Knight of the Body to both Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII. [3] His great-grandmother, Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington , was the richest heiress in England, and his great-great-grandmother was Elizabeth Woodville , Queen of England.
Francis Willughby's Book of Games is a book published in 2003 that printed for the first time a transcription of a seventeenth-century manuscript written by Francis Willughby that was held in the library of the University of Nottingham.
De Historia Piscium (Latin for 'Of the History of Fish') is a scientific book written by Francis Willughby and John Ray and published by the Royal Society in 1686. The book was the first illustrated work on ichthyology to be published in England.
Will → Francis Willughby (1635-1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist; Wils → Alexander Wilson, a Scottish American ornithologist and naturalist.
The 17th-century ornithologist Francis Willughby is buried there. [2] The church contains an ornate memorial commemorating Francis, his parents, Francis senior and Cassandra, and his son, also Francis; this was erected by his second son, Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton. [3]