Reginald Mohun (died 1642)
# Reginald Mohun (died 1642)

Reginald Mohun (1605 – c. 1642) of Trewynard (Trewinnard, St Erth) in Cornwall, was a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in 1626.

## Origins

He was born in 1605, the 2nd son of Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet (1564–1639) of Boconnoc in Cornwall, by his 3rd wife Dorothy Chudleigh, a daughter of John Chudleigh (1565-1589), MP, of Ashton in Devon, and sister of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (c.1578-1658), MP for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in 1621 and 1625 and for East Looe, Cornwall, in 1614.

## Career

He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 13 December 1622, aged 17, and was awarded BA on 10 June 1624. He was a student of law at the Middle Temple in 1625. In 1625, he was elected a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in a double return which was probably not resolved in the time of the parliament.

This election result is not recognised in his History of Parliament biography. He was definitively re-elected MP for Lostwithiel in 1626.

## Marriage and children

He married twice:

* Firstly to Mary Southcote, a daughter of Sir George Southcote of Shillingford, Devon, MP, by whom he had one son and one daughter:
   * Reginald Mohun, a minor at the death of his father;
   * Dorothy Mohun (born 1636)
* Secondly, to a certain Dorothy, of unrecorded family, who survived him.

## Death

He died before 15 August 1642 when his will was proved.

## Sources

* History of Parliament biography
