Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos was an English historian, travel writer and artist. She spent more than a quarter-century overseeing the restoration of the gardens and rebuilding of the famil
Wollaton Hall, family seat in Nottingham of Duchess Cassandra's family, the Willoughbys
Kneller's 1713 portrait, Chandos family, believed to show Cassandra, rather than the Duke's first wife, mother of the two children in the picture.
Their Cannons House estate in Middlesex, England, seat of the Duke of Chandos
Shaw House, an estate of Cassandra and her husband, Duke James Brydges
Francis Willughby
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Francis Willughby FRS was an English ornithologist, ichthyologist and mathematician, and an early student of linguistics and games.
The Willughby family home at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire
Lady Cassandra Ridgeway, Willughby's mother
In South Wales, Willughby and Ray saw a rare black-winged stilt shown here in the Ornithologiae Libri Tres as "Himantopus".
Approximate reconstruction of the journeys through Europe Willughby, Ray, Bacon and Skippon Ray and Skippon to Sicily and Malta Willughby and Bacon head north Willughby alone