John Worsley (30 March 1696, Hertford – 16 December 1767, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England) was an English schoolmaster and scholar of classical Greek.
[1] After his death it was published by subscription in 1770, as The New Testament or New Covenant, edited by Matthew Bradshaw and one of the author's sons, Samuel Worsley (22 September 1740 – 7 March 1800).
[2][3][4] The system of substitutions for words, such as "mote", no longer current in spoken English, by "chaff" or "splinter", met with approval from the Monthly Review.
[5] Other works by Worsley were grammatical tables (1736),[6] and Exemplaria Latino-Anglica (1745).
[7] A Short, Plain and Comprehensive Grammar for the Latin Tongue was published in 1771.