Wadsworth Busk
British lawyer
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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.[1]
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.[2]
Family
Born in Leeds, Busk was the son of Swedish wool merchant Jacob Hans Busck who was naturalised British and whose grandfather was French,[3] 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.[4] Their children were:
- Edward Busk (1765–1838)
- Jacob Hans Busk (1767–1844) married Martha (1782 - 1846), daughter of Joseph Dawson of Royds Hall.
- Robert Busk (1768–1835), whose 1780s school-boy diary is held in the Museum of Manx Memories.[5] He became a merchant; one of his children was the scientist George Busk.[6]
- William Busk (1769–1849), briefly became the MP for Barnstable and married Mary Margaret Busk[3]
- Hans Busk (1772–1862)[7]
Sir Wadsworth married his second wife Sara in 1787. Lady Busk died in her 81st year in Bath in 1819.[8][9]