1. Charles Worsley was an English soldier and politician.
10 Facts About Charles Worsley
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Charles Worsley was an ardent supporter of Oliver Cromwell and was an officer in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth of England.
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Charles Worsley sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and governed a district during the Rule of the Major-Generals.
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Charles Worsley was a parliamentary captain in Lancashire in 1644.
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Charles Worsley commanded the detachment used in the expulsion of the Long Parliament in 1653 and took charge of the "bauble" when Cromwell ordered it to be removed.
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In 1654, Charles Worsley was elected the first Member of Parliament for Manchester in the First Protectorate Parliament.
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Charles Worsley confiscated the property of Royalists, put Roman Catholics in jail, suppressed horse-racing, and promoted the public good according to his own ideals.
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Charles Worsley died suddenly in 1656 at the age of 33 and was buried in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
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The family of Charles Worsley remained at Platt Hall until 1906, when it was sold to the Manchester Corporation, the city then encroaching on its estate.
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Elizabeth Tindal-Carill-Charles Worsley, who sold the estate, was the granddaughter of Francis Sacheverel Darwin, son of Erasmus Darwin.