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Charles Anderson Worsley, 2d Earl of Yarborough

1809–62

Politician. Whig M.P. for Lincolnshire, 1831–2; for North Lincolnshire, 1832–46. Succeeded to the earldom in 1846. Master of the Brocklesby Hounds, 1846–62. Grand Master of the Lincolnshire Freemasons, 1849–62. Lord lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 1857–62.

Sources

Complete peerage

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Complete peerage: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. By George Edward Cokayne. Revised edition. Edited by Vicary Gibbs, et al. 13 vols. in 14. London: St Catherine Press. 1910–59.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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