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Authorised form of nameMolesworth; Robert (1656 - 1725); 1st Viscount Molesworth and Baron Molesworth; Whig politician
Dates1656 - 1725
NationalityBritish
Place of birthFishamble Street, Dublin, Ireland
Date of birth07 September 1656
Place of deathHis estate at Brackenstown, near Swords, Co Dublin
Date of death22 May 1725
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Swords
OccupationPolitician and political writer
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin; BA (1675); Lincoln's Inn (admitted 1657)
Career:
Supported William of Orange (1688); his estates were attainted by James II and restored to him (1689); sent on a private mission to Denmark (1689-1690); Envoy Extraordinary to Denmark (1692-1694); having offended the Danish court, he retired to Flanders where he wrote a book critical of the introduction of absoluteist monarchy in Denmark; returned to Ireland (1695); MP for Dublin in the Irish Parliament (1695-1699); Privy Councillor (Ireland) (1697-1713, 1714); MP for Camelford (1695-1698); MP for Lostwithiel (1705-1706); MP for East Retford (1706-1708); MP for Mitchell (1715-1722); Commissioner for Trade and Plantations (1714-1715)
Honours:
Baron Molesworth of Philipstown and Viscount Molesworth of Swords (1719)
Memberships:
FSA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election23/03/1698
ProposerSir Hans Sloane
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1698
RelationshipsParents: Posthumous son of Robert Molesworth, Merchant, of Dublin and Judith, daughter of John Bysse, Recorder of Dublin
Spouse: Letitia, daughter of Richard Coote, Baron Coote of Coloony, andMary, daughter of Sir George St George
Children: Richard, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (FRS 1722), and of Coote Molesworth (FRS 1731), and 15 other children
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Hunter; GEC; LI; Sedgwick
References:
W H G Armytage, 'Sir Godfrey Copley, FRS (1653-1709). Some Tercentenary Glimpses through Letters to his Friends' in NR 1954-55 vol 11 pp 54-74
Notes:
Last in 1715 list.
CodeNA5792
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/24/98Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Guilford Molesworth, 39 Victoria Street, S.W.28 February 1902
MS/390/108Bond of Robert Molesworth to the Treasurer of the Royal Society6 April 1698
IM/003133Molesworth, Robert, 1st Viscount Molesworth and Baron Molesworth1721
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