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unusual facts about Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham



George Barne II

He was an incorporator of the first English Company, and helped finance Sir Hugh Willoughby's attempt to find a Northeast Passage in 1553, which would end in disaster.

Hugh Willoughby

They turned back and as the storms worsened decided to winter in a bay on the coast at a place now known to be on the Kola Peninsula in the general area to the east of Murmansk.

Setting out again despite warnings of the danger he found the entrance to the White Sea and with local help eventually arrived at Arkhangelsk.

Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Other positions included Vice-President of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Trustee for the British Museum and a Commissioner on the Board of Longitude.

Rivington Unitarian Chapel

On the north wall is an 18th-century monument to the Barons Willoughby of Parham.


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