Benjamin Worsley (1618–1673) was an English physician, Surveyor-General of Ireland, experimental scientist, civil servant and intellectual figure of Commonwealth England.
His work was too rough-and-ready to be of practical help to arranging land grants to soldiers, and William Petty took over.
[2] He was an alchemical writer, and associate of Robert Boyle, and knew George Starkey from 1650.
[3] Worsley associated with the circle around Samuel Hartlib and John Dury, and on their behalf visited Johann Rudolph Glauber[4] in 1648-9.
Worsley followed the theories of Michael Sendivogius and Clovis Hesteau.