Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth [SEP] date of birth
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth PC (Ire) (7 September 1656 – 22 May 1725) was an Irish politician and writer.
Molesworth came of an old Northamptonshire family. He married Hon. Letitia Coote, daughter of Richard Coote, 1st Baron Coote, and Mary St. George. His father Robert (d. 1656) was a Cromwellian who made a fortune in Dublin, largely by provisioning Cromwell's army; Robert Molesworth the younger supported William of Orange and was made William's
who succeeded his father in 1997.
Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are descendants of the 1st Viscount, as are the actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
Viscounts Molesworth (1716).
- Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth (1656–1725)
- John Molesworth, 2nd Viscount Molesworth (1679–1726)
- Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (1680–1758)
- Richard Nassau Molesworth, 4th Viscount Molesworth (1748–1793)
- Robert Molesworth, 5th Viscount Molesworth (