Robert William Douglas Willoughby Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Sir
Robert William Douglas Willoughby
Office:Deputy Commissioner
Term End:26 August 1920
Birth Date:21 January 1877
Birth Place:Oxford, United Kingdom
Death Place:Lakhimpur Kheri, British India
Alma Mater:Magdalen College, Oxford

Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby was Deputy Commissioner of Kheri. He was the son of Colonel R. F. Willoughby.

The East India Company built Willoughby Memorial Hall in 1924 in memory of Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby, Deputy Commissioner of Kheri who was killed on 26 August 1920.[1] The colonial authorities apprehended independence activists Naseeruddin Mauzi Nagar and Rajnarayan Mishra on charges of shooting the Deputy Commissioner, and sentenced them to death by hanging.[2] On 26 April 1936, Willoughby Memorial Library was established. The Willoughby Memorial Hall was recently renamed the Naseeruddin Memorial Hall.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Haileybury Roll of Honour: India 1920s. Haileybury School website. 19 June 2013.
  2. Web site: AIALA State Conference in UP . 2013-07-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112120134/http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2004/october/aiala_up.htm . 2013-11-12 .