WORSLEY, Sir Robert (by 1512-85), of Booths, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. by 1512, 1st s. of Robert Worsley of Booths by Alice, da. and coh. of Hamlet Massey of Rixton. m. by 1533, Alice, da. of Thurstan Tyldesley of Tyldesley and Wardley Hall, nr. Worsley, 1s. Robert 3s. illegit. suc. gdfa. 1533. Kntd. 11 May 1544.Of age at grandfather’s death, VCH Lancs. iv. 383. Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxi), 131; (lxxxviii), 340; (xcviii), 81; Chetham Soc. xxxiii. 100-1.

Offices Held

J.p. Lancs. from c. 1540; sheriff Dec. 1548 – Nov. 1549, 1559 – 60; dep. lt.; commr. eccles. causes, diocese of Chester 1562.J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. gentry 1529–58’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1959), 538; VCH Lancs. ii. 98; CPR, 1560–3, pp. 280–1; Chetham Soc. l. 131n.

Parlimentarian

WORSLEY, Sir Robert (by 1512-85), of Booths, Lancs.

Main residence: Booths, Lancs.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

No

Addresses

Religion