Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets
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Pencarrow
Pencarrow is a country house in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles east-southeast of Wadebridge and three miles north-northwest of Bodmin...
near St Mabyn
St Mabyn
St Mabyn is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated three miles east of Wadebridge....
in Cornwall
Cornwall
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, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 19 July 1689 for Hender Molesworth, Governor of Jamaica.
The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament
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for Lostwithiel
Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)
Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
and Bossiney
Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)
Bossiney was a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall, one of a number of Cornish rotten boroughs, and returned two Members of Parliament to the British House of Commons from 1552 until 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
. The fourth Baronet represented Newport
Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency)
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and Cornwall
Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
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in the House of Commons
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. The fifth and sixth Baronets sat as Members of Parliament for Cornwall. The eighth Baronet was a prominent Conservative
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politician and served as Secretary of State for the Colonies
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in the 1850s. The eleventh Baronet represented Bodmin
Bodmin (UK Parliament constituency)
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in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist. The twelfth Baronet was the son of the Reverend Hender Molesworth (great-grandson of the fifth Baronet), who in 1844 assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of St Aubyn, his mother being the daughter and co-heiress of Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet
Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet
Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet , was a British Member of Parliament, High Sheriff of Cornwall and Grand Master of the Freemasons....
(see St Aubyn Baronets
St Aubyn Baronets
There have been two Baronetcies created for members of the St Aubyn family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom....
). The fifteenth Baronet was High Sheriff
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of Cornwall
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from 1975 to 1976 and also served as a Deputy Lieutenant
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of the county.
Molesworth, later Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets, of Pencarrow (1689)
- Sir Hender Molesworth, 1st Baronet (c. 1638-1689)
- Sir John Molesworth, 2nd Baronet (1635-1716)
- Sir John Molesworth, 3rd Baronet (1668-1723)
- Sir John Molesworth, 4th Baronet (1705-1766)
- Sir John Molesworth, 5th Baronet (1729-1775)
- Sir William Molesworth, 6th BaronetSir William Molesworth, 6th BaronetSir William Molesworth 6th Baronet Molesworth of Pencarrow, Cornwall, was elected MP for Cornwall 25 February 1784 and served until 1790 ....
(1758-1798) - Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, 7th Baronet (1789-1823)
- Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet (1810-1855)
- Sir Hugh Henry Molesworth, 9th Baronet (1818-1862)
- Sir Paul William Molesworth, 10th Baronet (1821-1889)
- Sir Lewis William Molesworth, 11th Baronet (1853-1912)
- Sir St Aubyn Hender Molesworth-St Aubyn, 12th Baronet (1833-1913)
- Sir Hugh Molesworth-St Aubyn, 13th Baronet (1865-1942)
- Sir John Molesworth-St Aubyn, 14th Baronet (1899-1985)
- Sir (John) Arscott Molesworth-St Aubyn, 15th Baronet (1926-1998)
- Sir William Molesworth-St Aubyn, 16th Baronet (b. 1958)