Wadsworth Busk

Sir Wadsworth Busk

Sir Wadsworth Busk (3 January 1730 – 15 December 1811) was Attorney-General of the Isle of Man from 1774 to 1797. He was knighted in 1781.

He entered Middle Temple in 1744 and was called to the bar in 1755.

After his career as attorney-general, he became Treasurer of Middle Temple.

Family

Born in Leeds, Busk was the son of Swedish wool merchant Jacob Hans Busck who was naturalised British and whose grandfather was French, and Rachel Wadsworth. His older brother, Hans Busk (1718–1792), was the great-grandfather of Baron Houghton.

Wadsworth Busk married Alice Parish in January 1756; she died in a 1776 accident ascending Richmond Hill on the way to Newtown and was buried in Onchan. Their children were:

Sir Wadsworth married his second wife Sara in 1787. Lady Busk died in her 81st year in Bath in 1819.

References

  1. ↑ "No. 12200". The London Gazette. 19 June 1781. p. 2.
  2. ↑ "A distinguished High Sheriff". Radnorshire Society Transactions. 28. Cylchgronau Cymru (Welsh Journals online): 39. 1958. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  3. 1 2 Thorne, R. G.; Fisher, David R. (1986). "BUSK, William (1769-1849), of Ponsbourne Park, Herts". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Sir Wadsworth Busk, 1730-1811". Manx Notebook. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1900). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Harrison & Sons.
  6. ↑ "A Journal of Robert Busk aged 13 years'". Museum of Manx Memories. Retrieved 20 October 2021. Robert Busk (1768–1835) was the son of Sir Wadsworth Busk (Busck) (Attorney General, 1774–1793) and Alice Parish of Newtown, Santon (both originally from Leeds, Yorkshire).
  7. ↑ Woodward, Bernard Barham (1901). "Busk, George" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 357–358.
  8. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1894). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ... – Busk of Ford's Grove. Harrison. p. 267. ISBN 9780394487267. Retrieved 12 October 2021. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  9. ↑ Clay, John W., ed. (1894). The Publications of the Harleian Society, Volume XXXVII: Familiae Minorum Gentium. Vol. I. p. 11. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  10. ↑ "Lady Busk of Bath". Wigs on the Green. 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021. Lady Busk of Bath [portrait painted on 20 September 1816] – Sarah Jane now became a step-mother to five boys; they settled in Beaconsfield and it was there that [her husband, Sir] Wadsworth Busk died in 1811. Sarah Jane [Lady Busk] outlived him by eight years passing away in September 1819 in her 81st year.

Dolley, Michael (1977): ‘Procurator extraordinary – Sir Wadsworth Busk (1730–1811)’. Proceedings of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society VIII/3: 207–245.