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XIII. 



CHARLES WILLOUGHBY, M.D., 



Fellow of the King and Queen's College of Physicians. 



By T. PERCY C. KIRKPATRICK, M.D. 



[Read Jaxuauy 22. Published March 7, 1923.] 



In the Proceedings of this Academy for 1857 (vol. vi), Sir William Wilde 

 published a MS. written in 1690 by Dr. Charles Willoughby dealing with the 

 Climate and Diseases of Ireland. This MS., which was printed in full, had 

 been found among a collection of papers belonging to Archbishop King, and 

 it was, Wilde tells us, preserved in the Library of Trinity College. No trace 

 of the MS. can now be found in the Library, and we are dependent for our 

 knowledge of it on the printed version in the Proceedings of the Academy. 

 Some further information about Willoughby has recently come to light, as 

 well as a commentary on his paper by Archbishop King, which form an 

 interesting supplement to the paper of Sir William Wilde. 



Little is known of the early history of Dr. Charles Willoughby, although 

 he belonged to a family of some note in Ireland during the seventeenth 

 century. His father, Sir Francis Willoughby, was a Major-General in the 

 army of Charles I, and he had been knighted on October 10, 1610, at Dublin 

 Castle, by the Lord Deputy, Sir Arthur Chichester. Sir Francis was a 

 member of the Provincial Council of Munster, and in 1636 he was appointed 

 Governor of Galway at a salary of 5/- per diem.' In 1641 he resigned that 

 charge to his son, Captain Anthony Willoughby, who in turn received the 

 honour of knighthood at Oxford on February 4, 1645/6. Another son. 

 Colonel Francis Willoughby, afterwards lived in poor circumstances at Dunbro, 

 in the parish of St. Margaret, Co. Dublin, where he died in 1679.- Sir 

 Francis Willoughby died in 1659. 



It has been stated that Charles Willoughby was born in Cork, but we have 

 not been able to ascertain the date of his birth. Probably he entered Ti'inity 

 College, but the date is uncertain, as no names are recorded in the Entrance 



' " Hist, of Galway," Hardiman, pp. 98, 108. 

 2 " Southern Fingal," F. E. Ball, 1920, p. 75. 



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