William Worsley (priest)
William Worsley (1435?−1499), was a dean of St. Paul's cathedral.
He is assumed to have been educated at Cambridge, as he is not mentioned in Wood; he is described as ‘sanctæ theologiæ’ ‘professor,’ but in his epitaph states ‘doctor of laws.’ On 29 April 1449 he was advanced to the prebend of Tachbrook in
Worsley held the deanery throughout the reigns of
Personal
Born probably about 1435, is believed to have been the son of Sir Robert Worsley of Booths in Eccles, Lancashire, and his wife Maude, daughter of Sir John Gerard of Bryn, Lancashire. His brother Robert married Margaret, niece of William Booth and Lawrence Booth, both of them Archbishops of York, to whose influence William owed most of his preferments.
References
- ^ James Gairdner, Letters and papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII Publisher Longman, 1863, page 375
- ^ James Raine, John William Clay, Testamenta Eboracensia: Or, Wills Registered at York, Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, &c., of the Province of York, from the Year 1300 Downwards, Volume 53, Volume 4 of Publications of the Surtees Society, Publisher J. B. Nichols, 1869, page 155
Pollard, Albert (1900). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- "The Estate and Household Accounts of William Worsley, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, 1479–1497", English Historical Review (February 2006) CXXI(490): 290
- "William Worsley, c 1435–c 1499", at The Museum of London
- Tomb slabs of Dean William Worsley, Roger Brabazon and Dean Valentine Carey, in St Paul's Cathedral, at the British Museum
- Le Neve, John, Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, ed. Hardy, passim
- Newcourt's Repertorium and Hennessy's Nov. Rep. Eccl. Londin. 1898
- Polydore Vergil, p. 592
- Bacon's Henry VII, ed. 1870, p. 339
- Gairdner's Richard III, p. 352
- Busch's England under the Tudors. i. 95;
- Archæologia, xxvii. 165
- Dugdale's St. Paul's; Milman's St. Paul's
- Testaments Ebor. (Surtees Soc.)
- Notes from Francis Worsley, esq.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Pollard, Albert (1900). "Worsley, William". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.