Richard Aldworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Aldworth was an alderman of Bristol. He was Sheriff of Bristol in 1627 and Mayor in 1642. In 1643 he was appointed one of the parliamentary committee to assess Bristol and was restored to his position as alderman by parliament in 1645.W R Williams ''Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester''
/ref> In January 1646, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol in the Long Parliament and sat until 1653. In 1649 he was one of the members given instructions for the preservation of timber in the Forest of Dean. He was a militia commissioner for Bristol in 1655. Aldworth married Mary Doughty, daughter of Bristol mayor and parliamentarian John Doughty, and was the father of, among others,

Robert Aldworth Robert Aldworth (died 1634) was a Bristol-born English merchant and philanthropist. Much of his wealth, although used often for generous purposes, was acquired through the trade and exploitation of slaves. He became Mayor of Bristol in 1609. Sug ...

later MP for Bristol.Helms, M. W. and Ferris, John P.,
ALDWORTH, Robert (c.1624-76), of Broad Street, Bristol and Lincoln's Inn
, ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690'', ed. B.D. Henning, Boydell & Brewer, 1983

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldworth, Richard High Sheriffs of Bristol Roundheads English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1648–1653 Mayors of Bristol Year of birth missing Year of death missing