Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet Worsley

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...

(1612–1666, Appuldurcombe) was an MP

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Newton Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

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Family

He was the son of Sir Henry Worsley (1612–1666), the third Baronet, and Bridget, daughter of Sir Henry Wallop. He married, in 1667, Mary Herbert (d. 1693) grand-daughter of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (1584–1650) and his wife Susan de Vere (1587–1629), youngest daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Mary Herbert's father was James Herbert of Kingsey in Buckinghamshire, second surviving son of Philip Herbert and Susan de Vere and a descendant of Sir Philip Sidney.

Life

The sitter is described in the Complete Baronetage (p. 66) as having been knighted at Whitehall on 29 December 1664 and succeeded to the Baronetcy 11 September 1666. He was also MP for Newton (Isle of Wight) from November 1666 until his death. He is described as being of 'Apuldercombe' (or now Appuldurcombe), on the Isle of Wight, where the large Tudor mansion (later replaced by the grand eighteenth century Appuldurcombe House

Appuldurcombe House

Appuldurcombe House is the shell of a large 18th-century baroque country house of the Worsley family. The house is situated near to Wroxall on the Isle of Wight....

) came to be owned by the Worsley family.