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    Charles Worsley (24 June 1622 – 12 June 1656) was an English soldier and politician. He was an ardent supporter of Oliver Cromwell and was an officer...
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    Lucy Worsley OBE (born 18 December 1973) is a British historian, author, curator, and television presenter. She is joint chief curator at Historic Royal...
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  • Charles Edward Austen Worsley (30 May 1902 – 2 December 1990) was an English cricketer. Worsley was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Evenley Vicarage...
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    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...
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    Charles Sackville Pelham, Lord Worsley (14 August 1887 – 30 October 1914) was a British soldier. He was the son of Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough...
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    Oliver Cromwell (category Regicides of Charles I)
    demanded that the "bauble" be taken away. His troops were commanded by Charles Worsley, later one of his Major Generals and one of his most trusted advisors...
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    Benjamin Worsley who were interested, among other matters, in alchemy. Worsley in 1646 was experimenting on saltpetre manufacture, and Charles Webster...
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    Philip Stanhope Worsley (12 August 1835 – 8 May 1866) was an English poet. The son of the Rev. Charles Worsley, he was educated at Highgate School, where...
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    Woodgate, who died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Spion Kop Charles Worsley, cricketer Radley College. "RadSoc Hub". Radley College. Archived from...
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    Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet, PC, FRS, FSA (13 February 1751 – 8 August 1805), of Appuldurcombe House, Wroxall, Isle of Wight, was a British politician...
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    Anderson baronets of Eyworth Worsley baronets, of Appuldurcombe Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley (son of Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough...
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  • General Worsley may refer to: Charles Worsley (1622–1656), English Army major general Henry Worsley (East India Company officer) (1768–1841), British...
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  • British flying ace Charles Worsley (cricketer) (1902–1990), English cricketer Frank Worsley (1872–1943), New Zealand explorer Giles Worsley (1961–2006), British...
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    Lorne John "Gump" Worsley (May 14, 1929 – January 26, 2007) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, 'Gump'...
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    not long-lasting, Cromwell granted it the right to elect its own MP. Charles Worsley, who sat for the city for only a year, was later appointed Major General...
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    towards status and wealth. He also became allied with Major-General Charles Worsley (who died 12 June 1656 and was buried at Westminster Abbey), brother-in-law...
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  • General Sir Richard Edward Worsley, GCB, OBE (29 May 1923 – 23 February 2013) was a senior British Army officer who fought in the Second World War and...
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  • Sir (William) Marcus John Worsley, 5th Baronet, DL, JP (6 April 1925 – 18 December 2012), was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a...
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    succeeded as the 4th Duke of Fife in 2015. They have three sons, including Charles Duff Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (born 1989), heir to the dukedom. In addition...
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    Darwin–Wedgwood family (category Charles Darwin)
    Charles Carill-Worsley of Platt Hall, near Manchester, in 1840. (Their daughter, Elizabeth, who married Nicolas Tindal, later Tindal-Carill-Worsley,...
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  • Royal Air Force Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard Major General Charles Worsley (no memorial remains) Unknown location Sir Arthur Ingram (omission...
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  • text from a publication now in the public domain: Firth, Charles (1900). "Worsley, Charles". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography....
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    Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough KG PC (11 June 1859 – 12 July 1936), styled Lord Worsley until 1875, was a British peer and politician...
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    Katharine, Duchess of Kent (born Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley; 22 February 1933) is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward...
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  • Charles John Pelham, 8th Earl of Yarborough (born 5 November 1963), styled Lord Worsley between 1966 and 1991, is a British peer and landowner. He was...
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    Sir Richard assisted Bissett to spy on Lady Worsley taking a bath. The art collector and connoisseur Charles Saatchi has considered the influence of candaulism...
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  • Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She...
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  • 20, 1653: Oliver Cromwell, with 40 musketeers under the command of Charles Worsley, entered the House of Commons and forcibly dissolved the Rump Parliament...
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    Manchester was granted a seat in Parliament for the first time. Maj Gen Charles Worsley, scion of an old Lancashire family and one of Cromwell's most trusted...
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  • to their own, included Bulstrode Whitelocke, Matthew Hale, and Sir Charles Worsley. The toleration of Jews was largely borne by the hope of converting...
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