Robert Worsley

Sir Robert Worsley, 4th Baronet (c. 1669–1747), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722.

Worsley was the eldest son of Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet, MP of Appuldurcombe, and his wife Mary Herbert, daughter of Hon. James Herbert of Kingsey, Buckinghamshire. In 1676, aged seven, he succeeded to the baronetcy and the manor of Appuldurcombe on the death of his father. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 17 December 1684, aged 15. He married by licence dated 13 August 1690 Frances Thynne, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, of Longleat, Wiltshire.

Worsley was Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire from 1699 to 1702. In 1702, he started rebuilding Appuldurcombe House which had been in his family since 1527.