A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Worsley, Marcus
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.