William Oldsworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1601.
Oldsworth was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1564 and became a bencher in 1584.
[1] He was appointed Recorder of Gloucester in 1587, being nominated by his predecessor Richard Pate, who may have sold him the office.
[3] There was continuous political factionalism in Gloucester as the corporation was split between an establishment group which was sympathetic to puritan ideas, and a more populist faction, led by Garnons and John Jones, who had strong links with the cathedral and tried to encourage the freeman vote.
[2] In 1597, Garnons and Oldsworth representing opposing factions were elected Members of Parliament for Gloucester[4] and it was alleged that the bench had deliberately excluded from the poll many freemen who supported Atkyns.