George Worrall Counsel

George Worrall Counsel (c. July 1758 – 19 January 1843) was a Gloucester solicitor, antiquarian, alderman, and property developer.

He was a noted antiquarian, helping Thomas Fosbroke with his work, and in 1829 published his own History and Description of the City of Gloucester.

[3] Counsel was first apprenticed to an ironmonger but left that to study law and qualified as a proctor and solicitor.

[6] He became a leading property developer in the city in the early nineteenth century[7] after he bought land in Monkleighton Grounds in the north-east of the city that he developed from 1822 into the area later known as Clapham, now part of Kingsholm,[1][8] on which he built several hundred houses for artisans.

[12] In 1840 he published his account of the life and martyrdom of Bishop Hooper who was burned at the stake in Gloucester in 1555.