Sir John Molesworth 2nd Bart., of Pencarrow

Profile & Legacies Summary

1635 - 1716

Biography

Second son of Hender Molesworth of Pencarrow and his wife Mary nee Sparke. Educated Balliol College, Oxford 1654, admitted to the Inner Temple 1654. Inherited the baronetcy on the death of his brother Hender in 1689; inherited Cow Park on the death of his brother's wife (date unknown) who was tenant-for -life.

"Descended from an old-established family of Northamptonshire gentry who had migrated to Cornwall two generations previously, Molesworth had been for most of his life a comfortably-off, unambitious country squire. Expenditure went on consolidating his Cornish estates and on building at Pencarrow, not on the onerous distinction of major office in his county or on elections to Parliament, even after he had been knighted in 1675."

Died in 1716. Succeeded by his eldest son Sir John Molesworth 3rd Baronet.

Sources

Burke's Peerage (1832) vol. 1 p. 176; Eveline Cruickshanks, 'MOLESWORTH, Sir John, 4th Bt. (1705-66), of Pencarrow, Cornw.', History of Parliament Online, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/molesworth-sir-john-1635-1716 [accessed 09/07/2018].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

[1] Margery Wise [2] Margaret Slaning

Children

With [1] 3 sons, 3 daughters

Occupation

Politician and landowner

Associated Estates (1)

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