Career
A Royal Navy veteran, he served in the Battle of Jutland aboard HMS Agincourt as runner to Captain Thynne. lieutenant measured 5 x 4 x 3 feet with an extension for his feet and small enough, he was quoted as saying, to keep women out. He paid no rent, rates or taxes and did not believe in insurance, pensions or governments.
lieutenant was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest residence of the world.
Wortley was one of ten children 4 girls Mary,Gladys,Selina & Shirley and 6 boys Les,Stan, Charlie Alexander, Ronald & Royal His mother Mary was the 2nd wife of William George Wortley & she was one of the 35 women killed by the Barnbow munitions explosion in 1916.
He was one of the subjects of comedian Dave Allen in the 1974 ATV documentary "Great English Eccentric".