SIR RICHARD WORSLEY
ARCHIVAL AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
British Library: Correspondence to or from Sir Richard Worsley
Add. MSS: 27915 (f. 13), 30873 (f. 146), 30874 (f. 62), 34886 (f. 400), 37935c, 37060 (f. 72, f. 77), 41192 (f. 18), 46501 (f. 79, 114), 46825 (ff. 64–83b), 51315 (f. 66), 61867 (f. 178)
Hoare’s Bank Archives: Banking Records of Sir Richard Worsley:
Volumes 1774–1805
Lincolnshire Archives: Worsley Papers
: 1 Worsley 14–17, 23, 24, 27, 31, 38, 39, 42, 44, 53; 1 Worsley 55/7, 55/8, 55/11–14, 16–42, 55/44, 55/46–8; 1 Worsley 56, 59, 61
Isle of Wight Record Office:
Swainston Papers (Barrington Family)
: SW/812, SW/794a–b, SW/794d–e
Worsley Family Papers:
JER/WA/3/9/56, JER/WA/33/25, 33/36, 33/44–9, 33/52, JER/WA/35/23–4, 35/25a&b, 35/28, 35/26–9, 37/22–31, 38/1, 38/3, 38/6–8, 39/4–6, JER/WA/AppV/12
Public Record Office, Kew
PCC Wills:
Sir Richard Worsley, Sir Thomas Worsley
Foreign Office Papers:
Correspondence as Minister-Resident in Venice
FO/81/9–14 (1793–1805)
Probate Inventory:
Prob 31/1002/374
Court of Chancery
: C/12/612/34
Worsley
v
. Worsley
, C/12/618/40
Worsley
v
. Lady Worsley
, C/12/149/6
Countess d’Amey
v.
Worsley,
C12/643/20
Poor of the Isle of Wight
v.
Worsley
Shropshire Archives: Attingham Collection:
Letters from Lady Bruce to Lady Berwick, 112/23/3/22/1–11
CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS
Almon, John (ed.),
The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes
(1805)
Anon.,
An Epistle from Lady W——y to Sir R——d W——y
(1782)
Anon.,
The Abbey of Kilkhampton or Monumental Records for the Year 1780
(1780)
Anon.,
The Abbey of Kilkhampton, an improved edition
(1788)
Anon. (Sir Richard Worsley),
The Answer of S——r R——d W——y, Bt. to the Epistle of L——y W——y
(1782)
Anon.,
The Genuine Anecdotes and Amorous Adventures of Sir Richard Easy and Lady Wagtail
(1782)
Anon.,
The Memoirs of Sir Finical Whimsy and His Lady
(1782)
Anon.,
The Whim!!!, or the Maid-Stone Bath, a Kentish Poetic
(1782)
Anon.,
Variety, or Which is the Man?
(1782)
Craven, Lady Elizabeth,
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople
(1789)
Marshall,
Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living
(1788)
Savage, James
The Librarian
(1808)
Wilkes, John (ed.)
A Collection of All the Hand-bills, Squibs, Songs, Essays, etc. Published during the late Contested Election for the County of Hants. between the Right Honourable Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. and Jervoise Clarke Jervoise
(Winchester, 1780)
Worsley, Sir Richard,
A Catalogue Raisonné of the Principal Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings etc. at Appuldurcombe House
(1804)
Worsley, Sir Richard,
Museum Worsleyanum; or, A Collection of Antique Basso Relievos, Bustos, Statues, and Gems; with Views of Places in the Levant taken on the Spot in the Years 1785–6–7
, Vol. 1 (1798)
Worsley, Sir Richard,
Museum Worsleyanum; or, A Collection of Antique Basso Relievos, Bustos, Statues, and Gems; with Views of Places in the Levant taken on the Spot in the Years 1785–6–7
, Vol. 2 (1824)
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Anon., ‘The Cuckold’s Reel or; a Dialogue between the Matrimonial Advocate, the Atlas Cornuto, and Admiral Easy’,
Rambler’s Magazine
, March 1783, p. 105
Anon.,
The Britannic Magazine; or Entertaining Repository of Heroic Adventures, 1794–1807
, vol. 12, p. 96
Anon.,
Monthly Register
, July 1803, p. 150
Anon., ‘Obituary of Sir Richard Worsley’,
Gentleman’s Magazine
, vol. ixxv, pt. ii (1805), pp. 781–2, 874–5
Juvenis, ‘On the Marriage of Sir Richard Worsley, Bart of Appuldurcombe in the Isle of Wight to Miss D.S. Fleming, of Harewood in the County of York’,
Hampshire Chronicle
, 9 October 1775, p. 4
GENERAL MENTIONS AND GOSSIP 1775–1805
The Annual Register
Bon Ton Magazine
European Magazine
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
Hampshire Chronicle
Leeds Intelligencer
Leeds Mercury
London Chronicle
London Gazette
Monthly Review
Morning Chronicle
Morning Herald
Morning Post
Public Advertiser
Rambler’s Magazine
St James’ Chronicle
Sussex Weekly Advertiser
Whitehall Evening Post
World
PUBLISHED SOURCES
Boucher, James E., ‘The Worsleys of the Isle of Wight’,
Letters Archaeological and Historical
(1896)
Bowring, John (ed.)
The Works of Jeremy Bentham
, vol. 10 (New York, 1962)
Boynton, Lindsay,
Appuldurcombe House
(1990)
Boynton, Lindsay, ‘Sir Richard Worsley and the Greek Revival’, in
Ancient History in a Modern University
, ed. T.W. Hillard et al., vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1998)
Boynton, Lindsay, ‘Sir Richard Worsley and the Firm of Chippendale’,
Burlington Magazine
, vol. 110, no. 783 (June 1968)
Christie, Ian R.,
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, 1781–88
, 5 vols (1971)
Cross, Anthony,
By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia
(Cambridge, 1997)
Ingamells, John,
A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1710–1800
(1997)
Lewis, W.S.,
Horace Walpole’s Correspondence
(New Haven, Conn., 1937–80)
Mannings, David,
Sir Joshua Reynolds
, 2 vols (2000)
Morritt, J. B.S.,
A Grand Tour: Letters and Journeys, 1794–6
, ed. G.E. Marandin (1985)
Prothero, Rowland E. (ed.)
The Private Letters of Edward Gibbon
, 2 vols (1897)
Radice, Betty (ed.)
Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
(1984)
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts,
Report on Family and Estate Papers of The Worsleys
(1895)
Smith, A.H.,
A Catalogue of Antiquities in the Collection of the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby Park
(1897)
Worsley, Henry Arthur Mant,
Family, Baronets of Appuldurcombe, 13th–19th centuries
, no. 84/9 (1984)
Worsley, Henry Arthur Mant,
The Pedigree of the Family of Worsley Completed to date and in Continuation of that Appearing in ‘Berry’s Hampshire Genealogies’
(1895)
Worsley, Sir Richard,
The History of the Isle of Wight
, ed. R.M. Robbins (1975)
LADY SEYMOUR DOROTHY WORSLEY (NÉE FLEMING)
ARCHIVAL AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
Isle of Wight Record Office: Worsley Family Papers:
JER/WA/35/23–24, 35/25a&b, 35/28
Hammond Papers:
HG/2/110 a&b, 2/107, 2/8–9, 2/69–71, 2/86, 2/76
Kensington Central Library, Local Studies Archive: Brompton Estate Papers:
MSS 2694, 2695, 2696, 2698, 2701, 2702, 2733, 2738, 2739, 2753, 2767, 2774, 2779, 2782 (10), 2790 (5), 2818, 2819, 2830, 2834, 2840
Nottinghamshire Archives: Foljambe Family Papers:
157/DD/FJ/11/1/3/427–8, 157/DD/FJ/11/1/4/33–4, 157/DD/FJ/11/1/4/43–4
Public Record Office, Kew
PCC Wills:
Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming, Sir John Fleming, John Lewis Fleming
Sheffield Archives: Spencer Stanhope Muniments
Sp/St 60635/4
Grenville Clark, Richard, ‘Contrasting Notions of Female Propriety in Late Eighteenth Century England, c. 1780–1800’, unpublished MA dissertation, University of Greenwich, 1987
Harewood House,
Maids and Mistresses
(exhibition guidebook, 2004)
Lynch, Karen,
Some Lascelles Ladies
(essay accompanying the exhibition ‘Maids and Mistresses’ at Harewood House, 2004)
CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS
Anon.,
A Fifteen Days’ Tour to Paris
(1789)
Anon.,
A Poetical Address from Mrs Newton to Lady W——y
(1782)
Anon.,
An Epistle from Lady W——y to Sir R——d W——y
(1782)
Anon.,
The Abbey of Kilkhampton or Monumental Records for the Year 1780
(1780)
Anon.,
The Abbey of Kilkhampton, an Improved Edition
(1788)
Anon. [Sir Richard Worsley],
The Answer of S——r R——d W——y. Bt. to the Epistle of L——y W——y
(1782)
Anon.,
The Devil Divorced or the Diabo Whore
(1782)
Anon.,
The Genuine Anecdotes and Amorous Adventures of Sir Richard Easy and Lady Wagtail
(1782)
Anon.,
The Life of Dick En——l——d, alias Captain En——l——d of Turf Memory
(1792)
Anon.,
The Memoirs of Sir Finical Whimsy and His Lady
(1782)
Anon.,
Variety, or Which is the Man?
(1782)
Anon.,
The Whim!!!, or the Maidstone Bath, a Kentish Poetic
(1782)
Anon.,
The Whore. A Poem Written by a Lady of Quality
(1782)
Hartley, J.,
History of the Westminster Election, Containing Every Material Occurrence from its Commencement on the 1 st of April to the Final Close
(1784) Pindar, Peter,
The Lousiad
(1785)
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Anon., ‘Anecdote of Mrs N——t——n and Lady W——s——y’,
Rambler’s Magazine
, May 1783, pp. 60–2, 101–2
Anon., ‘Obituary of Sir Richard Worsley’,
Gentleman’s Magazine
, vol. ixxv, pt. ii (1805), pp. 781–2, 874–5
Anon., ‘The Court of Scandal or The New Female Coterie’,
Rambler’s Magazine
, June 1783, pp. 270–1
Anon., ‘The Most Fashionable Votaries of Venus’,
Rambler’s Magazine
, April 1783
Anon. ‘Spa Intelligence’,
Rambler’s Magazine
, August 1785, p. 359
Robertson, Thomas, ‘Cytherian Discussions’,
Rambler’s Magazine
, July 1783, pp. 248–50
(from January 1782 to December 1784 regular updates of Lady Worsley’s activities can be found in:)
Morning Herald
Morning Post
Rambler’s Magazine
(from 1783)
Newspapers and Journals: General Mentions
Annual Register
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
Hampshire Chronicle
European Magazine
Leeds Intelligencer
Leeds Mercury
London Chronicle
London Gazette
Monthly Review
Morning Chronicle
Public Advertiser
St James’ Chronicle
Sussex Weekly Advertiser
Town and Country Magazine
Whitehall Evening Post
World
PUBLISHED SOURCES
Bleackley, Horace ‘Lady Worsley’,
Notes and Queries
, 11 S. I (1 January 1910), pp. 14–15
Cave, Kathryn (ed.)
The Diary of Joseph Farringdon
, vol. 8 (New Haven, 1982),
Chitty, Joseph et al.,
A Practical Treatise on the Law of Contracts Not Under Seal
(1855)
Clark, Lorna J. (ed.)
The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney
(Athens, Georgia, 1997)
Elliott, Grace Dalrymple,
Journal of My Life During the French Revolution
, ed. Richard Bentley
Greening, Henry,
Chitty’s Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Action
(1876), Appendix to vol. 1, p. 473,
Turtle
v.
Worsley
Historical Manuscripts Commission,
Carlisle Manuscripts
(1897), Appendix pt. v. p. 536
King, A. Hyatt (ed.),
The Reminiscences of Michael Kelly
(New York, 1968)
Lewis, W.S.,
Horace Walpole’s Correspondence
(New Haven, Conn., 1937–80), vol. 25, pp. 228, 245–6
Mannings, David,
Sir Joshua Reynolds
, 2 vols (2000)
Penny, N. (ed.)
Reynolds
(1986)
Rizzo, Betty (ed.)
The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, 1780–1781
, vol. 4 (Montreal, 2003)
Ruvigny, Melville H.,
The Nobilities of Europe
(2000)