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made the subject of very good biographical articles by Mr. J. 
E. Harting and Mr. W. H. Mullens.* 
1668. Francis WILLUGHBY. 
Francis Willughby, whose name has been held in such 
high honour, was born in 1635 and died in 1672 at Middleton 
Hall, near Tanworth, in Warwickshire. The house still stands, 
and is the property of his descendants, but has been altered 
and added to since Willughby’s day. Lord Middleton, its 
MIDDLETON HALL, 1918. 
present owner, to whom the reader is indebted for the view 
of it, possesses good oil paintings of the naturalist,f and of 
his mother, Lady Cassandra Willughby, the former has long 
combed hair, and both of them are in costumes suggestive 
of Cromwellians of a Puritan type. 
* The “Field,” Oct. 10th, 1903, and ‘British Birds,’’ Mag. (Vol. IL., 
pp. 109, 151). Mr. Mullens possesses Thomas Pennant’s copy of the 
“Pinax,” with his book-plate, but it only contains one or two_ brief 
memoranda. 
t Reproduced by Sir Wiliam Jardine, in “The Naturalists’ Library”’ 
(Orn., Vol. V.), and the original of the bust at Cambridge, as well as of the 
tablet in Southwell Cathedral. 
