General instructor army officer commander
Worsley was born on 29 May 1923 at Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland, the son of Herbert Henry Knight Worsley, Justice of the Peace (1885-1947) of Lough House, Grey Abbey, County Down, by Rose Austen (died 30 April 1958), only daughter of John Alfred Hives of Upper Plain, Masterton, New Zealand, farmer, and widow of Major Meyrick Myler Magrath, Defence Science Organisation, Royal Field Artillery, of Dorking House, Cosham, Hampshire.
He was educated at Radley College.
Worsley was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1942. He served in World World War II in the Middle East and Italy, and then in the Malayan Emergency in 1948. He became an Instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst later in 1948 and then became Commanding Officer of the Royal Dragoons in 1962.
He became General Officer Commanding 3rd Division in 1972 and Commander 1st (British) Corps in 1976.
He lived at Goring Heath in South Oxfordshire and died on 23 February 2013.
He was appointed Commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in 1965 and Chief of Staff Far East Land Forces in 1969. His final appointment was as Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1979. He retired in 1982.He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1963 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1976.
