Worswick, Richard, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1791–1840). Included in the list of journeyman cm in basic sympathy with the Leeds Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791. Shown trading on his own behalf from 1816. At Vicar Lane, 1816–20, 24 Lowerhead Row, 1821, 3 Barron's Yd, 1826 and Woodhouse Lane 1828 onwards. The number in Woodhouse Lane was 11 and 14 in 1830, 18 in 1834 and 9 from 1837. From 1821 the business traded as Richard Worswick & Son. In 1837 undertook the furnishing of the Oxford Pl. Methodist Chapel and submitted an account for £133 13s 4d in this connection. The invoice dated 15 December 1837 gives a trading address at 10 Woodhouse Lane and indicates that they also acted as appraisers and undertakers. [D; Leeds archives dept, OP/35]