island. Another convoy, which had left a month earlier, reached Gibraltar on the same day only. Capt. Wormeley had previously, 4 June, 1810, captured the Sans Peur, a felucca-privateer of 1 long gun, 2 swivels, and 39 men. He paid the Minorca off in May, 1814; and was advanced to Post-rank 7 June following. His efforts to procure employment since have been as constant as they have been unavailing.
Capt. Wormeley married, 3 Oct. 1820, Miss Caroline Prehle, of Boston, and has issue one son and three daughters.
WORSFOLD. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 24; h-p., 12.)
William Worsfold was born 24 Feb. 1798.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fisgard 38, Capt. Fras. Mason, stationed in the Baltic and Channel; and from July, 1812, until his return to England in July, 1814, was employed again in the Baltic, and also on the coast of Brazil, as Midshipman, in the Aquilon and Ceres frigates, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Bowles. While detached, in Feb. 1814, in a hired schooner, he was wrecked near Monte Video. In June of the same year he narrowly escaped being blown up in a re-captured vessel of which he had been placed in charge, owing to the Americans, who had just before abandoned her, having affixed a lighted match to a barrel of gunpowder. After he left the Ceres, and until he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 30 May, 1820, he was employed in the Channel, at Sheerness, and in South America, as Midshipman and Mate, in the Chatham 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, and Menelaus, Amphion, and Créole frigates, Capts. W. Bowles and Adam Mackenzie. His succeeding appointments were – 4 Nov. 1823, to the Water Guard – 10 Feb. 1824, as a Supernumerary, to the Ramillies 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – 18 May, 1824, to the Seringapatam 46,[1] Capt. Chas. Sotheby, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Dec. 1827 – 7 Dec. 1829, as First-Lieutenant (a post he had latterly filled on board the Seringapatam), to the Childers 18, Capt. Robt. Deans, in which vessel he served on the Home station until Feb. 1832 – and, 15 Sept. 1836, 30 April, 1839, and 27 Oct. 1840, in a similar capacity, to the Britannia 120, Impregnable 104, and Caledonia 120, flag-ships of Sir Philip Chas. Durham and Sir Graham Moore at Portsmouth and Plymouth. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; was re-appointed, 1 Dec. following, to the Caledonia, as Second-Captain; was superseded from that ship 26 April, 1842; was again employed at Plymouth, from 18 April until 20 June, 1845, in the Queen 110, bearing the flag of Sir John West; and on 16 Nov. 1846 was appointed to the Imaum 72, receiving-ship at Jamaica, Commodores Daniel Pring, Geo. Robt. Lambert, and Thos. Bennett. He has been acting as Captain of the Imaum since 12 Feb. 1847.
Commander Worsfold married, 28 Dec. 1830, at Westbourne, Miss Mary Ann Hipkin, of Recton Park, by whom he has issue two sons.
WORSLEY. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 11; h-p., 28.)
Marcus Worsley is second surviving son of the late Rev. Geo. Worsley, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of Stonegrave and Scawton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, by Anne, fourth daughter of Sir Thos. Cayley, Bart., of Brompton, in that co. He is next brother of the present Sir Wm. Worsley, Bart., of Hovingham Hall, co. York.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Invincible 74, Capts. Ross Donnelly and John Hollinworth, employed in the North Sea and on the Mediterranean station, where, after having served off Cadiz, he successively, in 1810-11, joined, in the capacity of Midshipman (a rating he had already attained), the Resistance 38, also commanded hy Capt. Hollinworth, and the Volage 22, Capts. Phipps Hornby and Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay. In the Volage he was present, we believe, in the famous action fought off Lissa 13 March, 1811. He subsequently accompanied Sir Evan Nepean, Bart., to the Government of Bomhay, and saw much active service, as Master’s Mate, in the Eastern Archipelago and the China Seas. In June, 1813, some months previously to which period he had removed with Capt. Mackay to the Malacca 36, he united in an attack made hy a force under the orders of Capt. Geo. Sayer on the piratical settlement of Sambas, in the island of Borneo. On the return to England of the Malacca, commanded at the time by Capt. Geo. Henderson, he was received, in July, 1815, for a few weeks, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Edm. Boger, lying at Portsmouth. He was next, in May, 1816, appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Forth 40, Capt. Sir John Louis, on the North American station, where he continued until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 24 Oct. 1818. He then returned to England in the Wye 24, Capt. John Harper, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Worsley married Harriet, daughter of Lieut. Hamer, R.N., and has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
WORTH. (Captain, 1840.)
Henry John Worth, born in 1803, is son of Capt. Jas. Andrew Worth, R.N., C.B. (1810), who died in Aug. 1841; and grandson of the late Rear-Admiral Jas. Worth. He had a brother, a Captain in the 84th Regt., who died at Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1827.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bulwark 74, commanded by his father, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, off Rochefort. Towards the close of the same year he sailed with those officers for the West Indies, as Midshipman, in the Venerable 74. During the passage he was afforded an opportunity of assisting at the capture, 16 and 20 Jan. 1814, with but trifling loss to the British, of the French 40-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène. He returned to England with Capt. Worth, in 1815, in the Palma 38; and was employed next, in the Channel, on the coast of Ireland, and in the East Indies, in the Impregnable 104, Capt. Jas. Nash, Spencer 74, Capt. Wm. Broughton, Erne 20, Capt. Timothy Scriven, Windsor Castle 74, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Sir Chas. Dashwood, Liffey 50, Commodore Chas. Grant, and Asia 84, Capt. Mark John Currie. On the paying off of the Asia, in which ship and the Liffey he had been acting as Lieutenant, he was presented with a commission bearing date 20 Aug. 1824. His succeeding appointments were – 18 Jan. 1825, to the Genoa 74, Capts. Wm. Cumberland and Walter Bathurst, employed in the Channel and on the coast of Portugal – 20 Dec. 1827 (a few weeks after he had left the Genoa), again to the Windsor Castle, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, lying at Plymouth – 1 Nov. 1828, to the Warspite 76, Capt. Wm. Parker, also at Plymouth – 22 Jan. 1829, to the Kent 78, Capts. John Ferris Devonshire and Sam. Pym, in which ship he returned to the Mediterranean – 29 July, 1831, as Senior, to the Rapid 10, Capt. Chas. Henry Swinburne, on the latter station, whence he came home and was paid off in July, 1833 – 11 Dec. 1833, in a similar capacity, to the Endymion 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, under whom he was afresh, for nearly three years, employed in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon – and, 26 Nov. 1836, again as First, to the Stag 46, Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan, fitting for South America. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 10 Jan. 1837; and on 1 Feb. 1838 he was appointed, in that capacity, to the Hastings 72, Capts. Fras. Erskine Loch and John Lawrence. Under Capt. Loch he escorted the Earl of Durham
- ↑ Mr. Worsfold was actively employed in the boats of the Seringapatam in the suppression of piracy in the Archipelago. On the night of 31 Jan. 1825 he was badly wounded in the breast at the capture, by the boats of that frigate and the Cambrian, of two vessels, carrying 1 gun and about 30 men each, up the Negropont. – Vide Gaz. 1825, p. 698. Six of the British on this occasion were killed and 13 wounded.
