Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet (1591–1652) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1626. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

Life Wortley was the son of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wortley Hall, Yorkshire and his wife Elizabeth Boughton daughter of Edward Boughton, of Cawston, Warwickshire (afterwards Countess of Devonshire). He succeeded his father in the family estates on 25 July 1603. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 17 February 1609, aged 17. He was knighted at Theobald's on 15 January 1611 and was created a baronet on 29 June 1611. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 1 August 1624. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for East Retford in the Happy Parliament. He was re-elected MP for East Retford in 1625 and 1626. effectively beginning the raising of the king's army.

He raised a troop of horse and fortified his house at Wortley.

Wortley died in 1653 and directed that he be buried with his father at Windsor.

Family Wortley married firstly, Grace Brouncker, daughter of Sir William Brouncker of Melskaham, Wiltshire. He married secondly, after 1623 (her first husband died in 1624), Hester Eyre, widow of Christopher Eyre Alderman of London, and daughter of George Smithes, Alderman and Sheriff of London. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Francis.