Major-General Richard Alchorne Worge (1707 – 4 May 1774) was an English General in the British Army,

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, and a

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for Stockbridge. He was born the second son of Thomas Worge of Eastbourne, Sussex and joined the Army around 1724. He was promoted lieutenant in the

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in 1732, captain in the 25th Foot in 1738, major in 1745 and lieutenant-colonel of the

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in 1754. During that time he was severely wounded at the

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, took part in the

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, and served in Flanders. In 1759, during the

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, he was made lieutenant-colonel commanding the newly formed 86th Foot and sailed with them to the newly captured Island of

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, off the coast of

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. From Gorée he administered the former French territory of Senegal as Governor until his return to England after the

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in 1763. He was promoted a colonel of the army in 1762 and raised to major-general in 1770. He was returned to Parliament in 1768 as member for Stockbridge, sitting until taking the

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in 1772. Worge died in 1774 and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Old Town, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Memorial to Richard Alchorne Worge in At Mary the Virgin Eastbourne

Memorial to Richard Alchorne Worge in At Mary the Virgin Eastbourne

He had married Jane Bowman of Ormskirk, Lancashire and had one daughter.

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Biography of General Worge
{{DEFAULTSORT:Worge, Richard Alchorne 1707 births 1774 deaths Burials in East Sussex British Army major generals British colonial governors and administrators in Africa Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1768–1774 Devonshire Regiment officers King's Own Scottish Borderers officers Royal Norfolk Regiment officers British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745 British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War