| 词条 | Henry Worsley (ambassador) |
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Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Worsley (1672 – 15 March 1740) was an English Army officer, ambassador, MP and Governor of Barbados.[1] He was the second son of Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet, of Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight and educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (1690), after which he studied law at Lincoln's Inn. He joined the British Army as an ensign in Colonel William Beveridge's Regiment of Foot (later the 14th Regiment of Foot) in 1689, becoming a lieutenant in 1693, and seeing action in Scotland and Flanders, where he was present at the battles of Landen and Namur. He transferred to become a captain in Colonel Francis Fergus O’Farrell’s Foot Regiment (later the 21st Foot) in 1693 and then as a captain-lieutenant in the 1st Foot Guards in 1700, rising in turn to captain and lieutenant-colonel (1702–08). He was elected Member of Parliament for Newtown, Isle of Wight in 1705, sitting during the Union with Scotland until 1715. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705.[2] In 1708 he retired from the Army and, having fought in Spain, was appointed an envoy to the King Charles III of Spain, but in the event was never sent. From 1713 to 1722 he was an ambassador to Portugal. In 1721 he was appointed Governor of Barbados, arriving in 1723 and holding the position until 1731, when he was removed from office after adverse complaints. He died unmarried in 1740. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/worsley-henry-1672-1740|title=WORSLEY, Henry (1672-1740), of Compton, Hants.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 28 October 2016}} {{s-start}}{{s-par|en}}{{succession box2. ^{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27worsley,%20henry%27%29|title= Past Fellows' Details|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 28 October 2016}} | before = Thomas Hopsonn | before2= John Leigh | title = Member of Parliament for Newtown | with = Sir James Worsley | years = 1705–1707 | after = Parliament of Great Britain }}{{s-par|gb}}{{succession box | before = Parliament of England | title = Member of Parliament for Newtown | with = Sir James Worsley | years = 1707–1715 | after = Sir James Worsley | after2= Sir Robert Worsley }}{{s-gov}}{{succession box | before=Samuel Cox | title=Governor of Barbados | years=1722–1727 | after=Thomas Catesby Paget }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Worsley, Henry}} 15 : 1672 births|1740 deaths|People from the Isle of Wight|Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford|Members of Lincoln's Inn|British Army officers|English MPs 1705–1707|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies|British MPs 1708–10|British MPs 1710–13|British MPs 1713–15|Fellows of the Royal Society|Governors of Barbados|Ambassadors of Great Britain to Portugal|Worsley family |
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