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2 unusual facts about Worsley


Geoffrey Tindal-Carill-Worsley

Air Cdre Geoffrey Nicolas Ernest Tindal-Carill-Worsley CB CBE RAF (8 June 1908 - 28 April 1996) was a Royal Air Force officer.

Legionella worsleiensis

Legionella worsleiensis is a bacterium from the genus of Legionella which was isolated from industrial cooling tower in Worsley in England.


Apse Manor

Apse must have passed from Courthop to a member of the Dillington family, for Worsley states that it was purchased of a Dillington by Edward Leigh of Newport, who left it to John Chichester.

Arthur Worsley

Worsley would accept Charlie's tirades with a Buster Keaton-like implacability, on rare occasions a barely detectable rise of the eyebrow, on still rarer ones a slight smirk.

Worsley made his first stage appearance aged 11 at the Casino, Rusholme, Manchester, billed as the "World's Youngest Ventriloquist".

Barry O'Brien

Ace London, with John Worsley, Kaj Melendez, and Mirza Javed (Fleetway Publications, 1962; Cuahtemoc Publishing Ltd, 2011) (ISBN 978-0957032101)

Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley

A memorial to Lord Worsley was erected in Britain, in All Saints Church, Brocklesby, Lincolnshire; it is a marble relief the 17th century style (to complement the adjacent Pelham family tomb of 1629), depicting Pelham, dressed in military uniform, kneeling at prayer, and was carved by the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.

Ernest Tyldesley

Ernest's elder brother JT named the Tyldesley family home in Worsley, Lancashire "Aigburth" to commemorate his younger brother's Lancashire debut at the Liverpool ground where Lancashire County Cricket Club occasionally play their matches.

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater

He is famous as the originator of British inland navigation, the commissioner of the Bridgewater Canal—often said to be the first true canal in Britain and the modern world (see below for a qualification)—which was built for him by James Brindley to service his coal mines at Worsley, in Lancashire.

Frederick Richard Simms

Frederick Richard Simms' first wife was Austrian, his second, married 1910, was Mabel Louise, daughter of cotton merchant Joseph Worsley and they had two daughters, one of which was Rosemary Mabel who married the Artist Dennis Ramsay.

Giles Worsley

Worsley joined Country Life weekly magazine in 1985 as an Architectural Writer, working for Clive Aslet and Marcus Binney, becoming Architectural Editor in 1989.

John Worsley

Les Vandyke (born 1931), singer and songwriter, also known as John(ny) Worth and John Worsley

Leanne Pooley

A Dramatised documentary about Frank Worsley, Captain of Ernest Shackleton's ill fated Endurance expedition.

Matthew Mullineux

Mullineux was born in Barton-upon-Irwell, Eccles, Lancashire, though some sources record his birthplace as nearby Worsley, to Matthew Mullineux, an insurance-inspector, and his wife Elizabeth Derbyshire.

Nottawasaga River

They rowed 360 miles to Fort Michilimackinac and three days later, Worsley returned with 92 men to take the Tigress and Scropion.

Outraging public decency

The judge was Brian Smedley, Michael Worsley was the prosecuting barrister, and Geoffrey Robertson and Francis Irwin were the defence barristers.

Ryde Manor

Ryde was parcel of Ashey Manor, and seems to have formed the portion of John the youngest son of Giles Worsley.

Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough

In 1926, Lord Worsley became a major in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry and on the death of his mother that year, inherited the baronies of Conyers and Fauconberg and the Portuguese countship of Mértola.

The Gumps

Hockey great Gump Worsley, born Lorne Worsley, was nicknamed for his resemblance to Andy Gump.

William Worsley

Worsley followed Major Arthur Lupton as captain, but only accepted the position after the Yorkshire committee had initially offered Herbert Sutcliffe the captaincy.

Willie Worsley

After this organization became bankrupt, Worsley became coach of the Spring Valley High School boy's basketball team in Rockland County, New York.


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