By his Will he left the following bequests:
£1,000 in trust to the President for the time being of the Royal Society for the Propagation and Improvement of Pigs, to be invested and the interest awarded annually in prizes for the best sucking pigs.
£100 to the Perennial Society of Whole Hoggers, of the local branch of which he was the esteemed and Honorary President; and
His famous White Sow, known as the "Soworthy Sow," to his lifelong friend the celebrated judge of pigs, Mr. Anthony Golightly Wackenbath.
The prize pigs were directed to be sold and realised £2,690. The collection of silver salt-cellars was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum on condition that it should be shown as a whole and named the Soworthy Collection. This bequest was accepted.
"His famous White Sow, known as the 'Soworthy Sow.'"
The debts due at death amounted to £215, and the funeral expenses to £45.
Within a week of the funeral the famous Soworthy Sow died in giving birth to a fine litter of ten little pigs, two of which unfortunately pre-deceased their Mother. The result of this event had been awaited before sending the Sow to Mr. Wackenbath, who was thus deprived of this mark of the deceased gentleman's affection. The value of the Sow alive had been £50, but dead she was not worth more than £3 10s. 0d., while the litter, whose father was the same Berkshire Boar that had been the unwitting cause of Mr. Soworthy's death, were worth £2 a-piece.