Richard Alchorne Worge

Major-General Richard Alchorne Worge (1707 – 4 May 1774) was an English General in the British Army, Governor of Senegal, and a Member of Parliament for Stockbridge.

[1] He was born the second son of Thomas Worge of Eastbourne, Sussex, and joined the Army around 1724.

From Gorée, he administered the former French territory of Senegal as Governor until his return to England after the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

He was returned to Parliament in 1768 as a member for Stockbridge, sitting until taking the Chiltern Hundreds in 1772.

Worge died in 1774 and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Old Town, Eastbourne, East Sussex.