Walter Brooke Cox Worthington (September 19, 1795 - 1845) was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
Through his maternal grandfather's sister, Jane Contee (1726–1812), who was married to John Hanson (1721–1783), a delegate to the Continental Congress who signed the Articles of Confederation and served as the 9th President of the Continental Congress, he was related to Alexander Contee Hanson (1786–1819), also a U.S. Representative, and later, U.S.
[2] He was educated in Nottingham and in Baltimore, where after leaving school, he entered a mercantile house, and remained until he had gained a practical business training.
He returned to Prince George's County shortly after reaching his majority and took charge of the estate devised him by his grandfather, Col. Thomas Contee, consisting of part of "Brookefield".
Upon the death of his mother, he inherited the estate "The Valley" or "Vale of Tempe", and he devoted himself to agriculture for the rest of his life.
Walter enlarged "The Valley" by purchasing adjoining fields, making it a farm of 600 acres (2.4 km2), and acquired several other estates in the same neighborhood, including the one known as "Half Pone", or "Leith", which he bought from Fielder Bowie (currently at the end of Croom Airport Road in Patuxent River Park, Croom, Maryland.)
He resided in the brick house "still standing in 1899" on the "Half Pone" plantation, but owing to its proximity to the river suffered from malaria, and in his will directed that the land be sold on this account.
Henrietta, who was born in Nottingham, Prince George's Co., Maryland, was previously married, in 1822, to Benjamin Oden, Jr. (1799–1823), of "Bellefields."