Willoughby baronets of Baldon House (1794)
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The Willoughby baronetcy, of Baldon House in the County of Oxford, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 8 December 1794 for Christopher Willoughby.[2][3] An improving agriculturalist, he "promoted the cultivation of swedes in elaborate crop rotations, innovatory methods of tillage and, unfashionably, the use of open fields for growing corn."[4]
The 3rd Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Yarmouth, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Evesham.[4] The 4th Baronet, involved with the administration of British India represented Leominster in the House of Commons, elected in 1857.[5] The title became extinct on the death of the 5th Baronet in 1918.[6]
