Worsley baronets

The Worsley family is an English family that is derived from Sir Elias de Workesley, a Norman knight who was a youth at the time of the Norman conquest. He later accompanied Duke Robert II of Normandy (elder son of William the Conqueror) on the First Crusade and was buried at Rhodes.

Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet, painted by Sir Peter Lely

There have been two baronetcies created for the Worsley family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Worsley baronets, of Appuldurcombe (1611)
Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet

The Worsley baronetcy, of Appuldurcombe in the County of Hampshire, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for landowner and politician Richard Worsley.[1] On the death of the fourth Baronet, the title passed to a branch of the family living at Pylewell, near Lymington, Hampshire. All except the sixth and eighth baronets were Members of Parliament for Newport, Isle of Wight, as were several other members of the family, including Henry Worsley, who was also successively British Envoy to Portugal[2] and Governor of Barbados. The seventh baronet was succeeded in his estates by his niece who married the 1st Earl of Yarborough, with the title passing to a distant kinsman. It became extinct on the death of his son, the ninth Baronet, in 1825.[3]

Male-line family tree
Male-line family tree, Worsley baronets, of Appuldurcombe
Sir Richard Worsley
1st Baronet
1588–1621
Sir Henry Worsley
2nd Baronet
1613–1666		Unknown sonThomas Worsley
Sir Robert Worsley
3rd Baronet
1643–1675		Sir James Worsley
?–1695		George Worsley
Sir Robert Worsley
4th Baronet
1669–1747		Sir James Worsley
5th Baronet
1672–1756		Rev.
John Worsley
Sir Thomas Worsley
6th Baronet
1728–1768		Thomas Worsley
Sir Richard Worsley
7th Baronet
1751–1805		Sir Henry Worsley-Holmes
8th Baronet
?–1811
Robert Worsley
1776–1795		Sir Leonard Worsley-Holmes
9th Baronet
1787–1825		Richard Worsley-Holmes
1792–1814
Baronetcy extinct

Worsley baronets, of Hovingham Hall (1838)
Coat of arms of the Worsley baronets, of Hovingham Hall.

The Worsley baronetcy, of Hovingham Hall in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 10 August 1838 for William Worsley.[4] The fourth Baronet was Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and father of Katharine, Duchess of Kent. The fifth Baronet was a Conservative politician. Botanist and explorer Arthington Worsley was a younger brother of the third Baronet.

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Marcus William Bernard Worsley (born 1995), only son of the 6th Baronet.

Male-line family tree
Male-line family tree, Worsley baronets, of Hovingham Hall
Sir William Worsley
1st Baronet
1792–1879
Thomas Worsley
1827–1855		Sir William Worsley
2nd Baronet
1828–1897		Arthington Worsley
1830–1861
Sir William Worsley
3rd Baronet
1861–1936
Sir William Worsley
4th Baronet
1890–1973
Sir Marcus Worsley
5th Baronet
1925–2012
Sir William Worsley
6th Baronet
born 1956
Marcus Worsley
born 1995

See also

Notes
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1900). Complete Baronetage 1611–1625. Vol. 1. Exeter: William Pollard and Co.
  2. D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. XLVI, 1932).
  3. Burke, John (1838). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, by J. and J.B. Burke. Scott, Webster & Geary. pp. 580–582.
  4. "No. 19631". The London Gazette. 3 July 1838. p. 1488.

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