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.^[1]

Sir Wadsworth Busk

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

He was the son of Swedish wool merchant Jacob Hans Busck who was naturalised British, 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 an accident in 1776. His family was originally from Leeds and his children included Hans Busk^[3] and Robert Busk (1768–1835) whose school-boy diary is held in the Museum of Manx Memories.^[4]

Sir Wadsworth married his second wife Sara in 1787. Lady Busk died in her 81st year in Bath in 1819.^[5][6]

He was the grandfather of scientist George Busk.^[7]