Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet (1591–1652) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1626.

[2] Wortley was a devoted supporter of the Royalist cause during the Civil Wars.

At the outbreak of war on 22 August 1642, Wortley was one of four chief baronets chosen to raise the king's standard at Nottingham,[4] effectively beginning the raising of the king's army.

He was captured in 1644 at Wotton House, near Wakefield and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1644 to 1648.

He married secondly, after 1623 (her first husband died in 1624), Hester Eyre, widow of Christopher Eyre Alderman of London, and daughter of George Smithes, Alderman and Sheriff of London.