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Edward Meux Worsley (1747–1782) was a British politician from the Isle of Wight who sat in the
House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...
between 1774 and 1782. Worsley was the eldest son of Sir Edward Worsley of
Gatcombe Gatcombe is a village in the civil parish of Chillerton and Gatcombe, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located about two and a half miles south of Newport, in the centre of the island. The parish, which includes Chillerton, had a populatio ...
and his wife Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Sir John Miller, 2nd Baronet. In 1762, he succeeded to Gatcombe on the death of his father. He matriculated at
New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...
on 28 June 1764, aged 17. His first wife was Elizabeth Crow of Alvington, Isle of Wight whom he married on 25 August 1768. She died in 1771. He married secondly Elizabeth Holmes, daughter of Rev. Leonard Holmes of Newport, Isle of Wight on 19 August 1772. Worsley was returned as Member of Parliament for Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) at the 1774 general election on the interest of his father-in-law. He vacated his seat in February 1775 to allow in his second cousin, James Worsley and was then returned unopposed as MP for Newtown (Isle of Wight) under Holmes control at a by-election on 4 December 1775. At the 1780 general election he was again returned at Newtown unopposed. He did not stand in
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. There is no record of any intervention by him in a debate. Worsley died in August 1782. He had a daughter by his first wife, and a son and daughter by his second wife. He is commemorated in the streetname Worsley Road, Newport.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Worsley Edward Meux 1747 births 1782 deaths Members of Parliament for the Isle of Wight Alumni of New College, Oxford British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784