Charles Edward Austen Worsley (30 May 1902 – 2 December 1990) was an English

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er. Worsley was a right-handed batsman. He was born at

Evenley Evenley is a village and civil parish just over south of Brackley in West Northamptonshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 571. The villages name means 'Level wood/clearing'. Geography The parish is bounded by t ...

Vicarage, Northamptonshire and baptised 29 June 1902, the son of the Rev. Edward Worsley (died 16 April 1923), Vicar of Evenley, 1872–1923, and Honorary Canon of Peterborough, by Ethel Adela (died 28 June 1913), the youngest daughter of Edward Knight of Chawton House, Chawton, Hampshire. He was educated at Radley College, 1915–1921. He worked for Sir Edward Penton and Company, boot manufacturers, 1921–24, a tea planter in Ceylon, 1924, silver fox farmer in Devon, 1934, and a tea planter at Ceylon again, 1939–52. Worsley made two first-class appearances for Northamptonshire in the

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against

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and Warwickshire. In the match against Sussex at the County Ground, Northampton, Worsely scored 5 runs Northamptonshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by Vallance Jupp. In their second-innings he was dismissed for 23 by the same bowler. The match ended in a draw. In the match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, he was dismissed for 4 runs in Northamptonshire's first-innings by Willie Quaife, while in their second-innings he scored 2 runs, before being dismissed by Harry Howell. Warwickshire won the match by 82 runs. He married 1939, Doris Mary, daughter of A. F. Whitechurch. He died at Cove, Devon on 2 December 1990. His brother, Arthur, also played first-class cricket. He was also related through his mother to the Knight cricketing family, a large number of whom played first-class cricket.

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