Hugh Willoughby
English Arctic voyager
Years: 1513 - 1554
Sir Hugh Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire (died 1554) is an early English Arctic voyager.
He is sent out in 1553, as captain of the Bona Esperanza with two other vessels under his command and with chief pilot Richard Chancellor, by a company of London merchants known as the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands, which later becomes the Muscovy Company.
