According to a 1996 profile by Jonathan Rigby, the New Statesmans T C Worsley wrote of his performance in a star-studded revival of King Lear that " Mr Morell's Kent is the best I remember since Sir Ralph Richardson's.

In a diary entry of 1773, Josiah Wedgwood wrote of the area " We next visited Worsley which has the appearance of a considerable Seaport Town.

Worsley wrote: " We knew it would be the hardest thing we had ever undertaken, for the Antarctic winter had set in, and we were about to cross one of the worst seas in the world ".

Worsley wrote that the Norwegian seamen at Stromness all " claimed the honour of helping to haul her up to the wharf ", a gesture which was " quite affecting ".

Worsley wrote the program that generated a table of squares, the first program to successfully run on EDSAC.

From Worsley to the rapidly-growing town of Manchester its construction cost £ 168, 000 (£ as of ), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening in 1761, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.

Wheeler's Manchester: Its Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern ( 1836 ) states that about one-fifth of the land around Worsley, Astley and Tyldesley was in tillage, lower on average than the surrounding areas.

There is a proposal being made about the possibility of having a racecourse built at the south of Boothstown running through to Worsley.

Yet Hawke had a different view about the captaincy of Yorkshire as, in 1927, he advocated the appointment of the professional batsman Herbert Sutcliffe to the post, although a controversy arose which resulted in William Worsley, another amateur, taking over.

While three stayed at the coast, Shackleton and the two others, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley, went on to cover overland to reach help at Stromness whaling station.

This system feeds bauxite through the difficult terain of the Daring Ranges to the Alumina refinery at Worsley.

Brindley's reputation brought him to the attention of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater who was looking for a way to improve the transport of coal from his coal mines at Worsley to Manchester.

These were for an elongated version of the boats designed for the underground system at Worsley, the so-called ' starvationers ', which were subsequently known as narrowboats and this decision was to cast a long shadow on the English canal system.

Within the grounds of James Brindley Primary School at Parr Fold Avenue, Worsley is a wooden barge once used for the transportation of coal from local mines.

He married Frances Worsley and had at least 6 children :-

On 17 October 1710 Carteret married Lady Frances Worsley at Longleat House.

Medicine, dentistry and healthcare students are served by the Health Sciences Library, located in the Worsley building, and there is an extension of this library at St James's University Hospital.

The most important works that occupied Flaxman in the years next following this appointment were the monument to Mrs Baring in Micheldever church, the richest of all his monuments in relief ( 1805 – 1811 ); that for the Worsley family at Campsall church, Yorkshire, which is the next richest ; those to Sir Joshua Reynolds for St Paul's ( 1807 ); to Captain Webbe for India ( 1810 ); to Captains Walker and Beckett for Leeds ( 1811 ); to Lord Cornwallis for Prince of Wales's Island ( 1812 ); and to Sir John Moore for Glasgow ( 1813 ).

Another ventriloquial allusion ( probably quoting Arthur Worsley ) was made when Eric said, should his intended listener be looking away, " Look at me when I'm talking to you!

Charles Worsley, he was educated at Highgate School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize in 1857 with a poem on The Temple of Janus.

The Duke of Kent married Katharine Worsley at York Minster on 8 June 1961.

Grantham was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, British Ambassador to Austria at the time, by his wife Frances, daughter of Thomas Worsley.

Having visited the Canal du Midi in France and watched the construction of the Sankey Canal in England, the Duke's solution to these problems was to build an underground canal at Worsley, connected to a surface canal between Worsley and Salford.

Brindley moved into Worsley Old Hall and spent 46 days surveying the proposed route, which to cross the Irwell would require the construction of an aqueduct at Barton-upon-Irwell.

Brindley's planned route began at Worsley and passed southeast through Eccles, before turning south to cross the River Irwell.

* Duke of Bridgewater's Underground Canal at Worsley

The A6 meets the A575 ( for Worsley and Farnworth ) and B5232 ( for Boothstown ) at crossroads where the road is dual-carriageway as High Street.

Perhaps the most distinguishing section of the M61 is to be found at the southern end at the Worsley Braided Interchange between junctions 1 and 3.

Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley was born at Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire, and was the only daughter of Sir William Arthington Worsley, 4th Bt., and his wife, Joyce Morgan Brunner, daughter of Sir John Brunner, 2nd Baronet and granddaughter of Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet, the founder of Brunner Mond, which later became ICI ( Imperial Chemical Industries ).

He attended Worsley Bridge Primary School where the school won both the Bromley area and Kent cricket Cups.

* Worsley, Giles, " Antique Assumptions ", in Country Life, August 6, 1992

Aske Hall's history has been well documented, notably in Richmond Architecture and in a two-part article by Giles Worsley published in Country Life in March 1990.

* The Life and Works of John Carr of York ( 2000 ) by the late Brian Wragg, edited by Giles Worsley, Oblong Creative, ISBN 0-9536574-2-6, ISBN 978-0-9536574-2-1.

In England, British Social Anthropology's paradigm began to fragment as Max Gluckman and Peter Worsley experimented with Marxism and authors such as Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach incorporated Lévi-Strauss's structuralism into their work.

A volunteer named Alan Worsley used eye movements to signal the onset of lucidity, which were recorded by a polysomnograph machine.

Of the 27 bodies recovered from lowland raised mires in England and Wales, only those from Lindow Moss and the remains of Worsley Man have survived, together with a shoe from another body.

See Rondel v. Worsley 1 AC 191.

Wolstenholme was born in Worsley, Lancashire.

* Worsley, Peter.

* Lucy Worsley, Curator and Historian.

For Clark then, the true purpose of Chiswick Villa was as a symbolic Royal Palace which awaited the return of the ' Kings over the water ' who were destined to rule by ‘ Divine Right ’, an interpretation supported by architectural historian Giles Worsley and others.

They also petitioned to make an extension from Westhoughton to the Bridgewater Canal near Worsley but stopped when the occupant of Atherton Hall objected.

Gibb's mother, Barbara ( née Pass ), was born in Worsley, Salford ; one of her grandfathers was an Irish immigrant.

He was one of several late 17th-century economic, social and political theorists with a medical education background ; contemporaries included Benjamin Worsley, Hugh Chamberlen, William Petty and John Locke.

Ownership reverted to the Crown, and in 1544 the ferry rights as well as the Priory properties were bought by Ralph Worsley of Lancashire for £ 586.

A key opposition figure in this had been Robert Haldane Bradshaw, one of the trustees of the Marquess of Stafford's Worsley estate, which included the Bridgewater Canal.

Commander H. Worsley Hill was appointed first governor of the Gold Coast.