Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster, known as Lord Aveland from 1867 to 1888 then Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1888 to 1892, was a British Liberal politician and courti
"A Great Officer of State" as caricatured by Spy, Vanity Fair, 1881.
Lord Ancaster's tomb at St Michael and All Angels' Church, Edenham, Lincolnshire
Baron Willoughby de Eresby
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Baron Willoughby de Eresby is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1313 for Robert de Willoughby. Since 1983, the title has been held by Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Barone
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster
…his father was created Baron Aveland, of Aveland in the County of Lincoln, in the peerage of the United Kingdom; his mother succeeded her brother as 24th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby in 1871, when her family's ancient English peerage title was called out of abeyance. A keen cricketer, as was his great-grandfather Peter Burrell, 1st…
Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby