Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet

1. "WORSLEY, Sir Richard, 7th Bt. (1751-1805), of Appuldercombe, I.o.W." History of Parliament. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
2. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Worsley, (Sir) Richard (Bart.)"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
3. Aston, Nigel. "Worsley, Sir Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29986.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. "No. 11375". The London Gazette. 6 February 1773. p. 1.
5. "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
6. Rubenhold, Hallie (2011). Lady Worsley's Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. Random House. p. 235. ISBN   9781446449691.

Further reading

• Aston, Nigel (2009) [2004]. "Worsley, Sir Richard, seventh baronet (1751–1805)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29986.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Bignamini, Ilaria; Hornsby, Clare (2010). Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 343–346. ISBN   9780300160437.
• Robbins, Michael (1978). "Sir Richard Worsley". In Simmons, Jack (ed.). English County Historians: first series. Wakefield: EP Publishing. pp. 222–240. ISBN   0-7158-1309-9.
• Rubenhold, Hallie (2008). Lady Worsley's Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   978-0701179809. [US title: The Lady in Red]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Wroth, Warwick William (1900). "Worsley, Richard". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

The Right Honourable Sir Richard Worsley Bt FRS FSA
by Joshua Reynolds (1775/6)
Comptroller of the Household
In office 1779–1782

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Hon John St John Hans Sloane	Member of Parliament for Newport 1774–1784 With: Hans Sloane 1774–1780 Hon John St John 1780–1784	Succeeded by Edward Rushworth Hon. Hugh Seymour-Conway
Preceded by George Canning John Barrington	Member of Parliament for Newtown 1796–1801 With: Charles Shaw Lefevre	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Newtown 1801 With: Charles Shaw Lefevre	Succeeded by Sir Edward Law Charles Shaw Lefevre
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Onslow	Comptroller of the Household 1779–1782	Succeeded by The Earl Ludlow
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Francis Drake	British Minister Resident to the Republic of Venice 1793–1797	Succeeded by Abolished
Honorary titles
Preceded by Hans Stanley	Governor of the Isle of Wight 1780–1782	Succeeded by The Duke of Bolton
	Vice-Admiral of the Isle of Wight 1780–1791	Succeeded by Thomas Orde
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Thomas Worsley	Baronet (of Appuldurcombe) 1768–1805	Succeeded by Henry Worsley-Holmes