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Crisp Molineux

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Crisp Molineux
John Opie
Born1730 Edit this on Wikidata
Saint Kitts Edit this on Wikidata
Died4 December 1792 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 61–62)
Saint Kitts Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPolitician Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Catherine Montgomerie Edit this on Wikidata
Position heldHigh Sheriff of Norfolk (1767–1768) Edit this on Wikidata

Crisp Molineux (1730–1792), of Garboldisham, Norfolk, was an English politician.

Biography

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He was the eldest surviving son of Charles Laval Molineux of St. Kitts in the West Indies.

He was a slave holder. With the wealth gained from this, he purchase an estate in Norfolk.[1]

He was educated at Newcome's School, in Hackney, London, and St. John’s College, Cambridge (1748), and then studied law at the Inner Temple (1749).[2]

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Castle Rising (8 June 1771–1774) and for King's Lynn (1774–1790).[3] He was High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1767–68.

He died in St. Kitts in 1792. He had married Catherine, the daughter and heiress of George Montgomerie, MP of Thundersley, Essex, and had a son and four daughters.

References

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  1. ^ Grass, Elisabeth (15 February 2023). The House and Estate of a Rich West Indian: Two Slaveholders in Eighteenth-Century East Anglia, in Politics and the English Country House, 1688-1800. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 197–216. ISBN 978-0228014027.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. ^ Molineux, Crisp (1730-92), of Garboldisham, Norf.
  3. ^ "MOLINEUX, Crisp (1730-92), of Garboldisham, Norf. | History of Parliament Online".
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Castle Rising
1771–1774
With: Thomas Whately (1771-1772)
Lord Guernsey (1772-1774)
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for King's Lynn
1774–1790
With: The Hon. Thomas Walpole (1774-1784)
The Hon. Horatio Walpole (1784-1790)
Succeeded by