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Authorised form of nameWorsley; Henry (c 1675 - 1740)
Other forms of surnameWorseley
Datesc 1675 - 1740
NationalityBritish
Date of birthc. 1675
Date of death15 March 1740
ActivityEducation:
St Edmund's Hall, Oxford (matriculated 1690); Lincoln's Inn (admitted 1690)
Career:
MP for Newton (1705-1714); Envoy to the court of Portugal (1714); Governor of Barbados (1721)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1705
RelationshipsSon of Sir Robert Worsley, Kt and Bart, of Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight, and Chilton Candover, Hampshire, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea; unmarried
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Foster; GEC Baronetage; LI
References:
Gentleman's Magazine 1740, p148 (obituary)
London Magazine 1740, p153 (obituary)
CodeNA7737
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