Crisp Molineux
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Born | 1730 ![]() Saint Kitts ![]() |
Died | 4 December 1792 ![]() Saint Kitts ![]() |
Occupation | Politician ![]() |
Spouse(s) | Catherine Montgomerie ![]() |
Position held | High Sheriff of Norfolk (1767–1768) ![]() |
Crisp Molineux (1730–1792), of Garboldisham, Norfolk, was an English politician.
He was the eldest surviving son of Charles Laval Molineux of St. Kitts in the West Indies.
He was a slave holder, who used the wealth gained by the exploitation of other human beings to 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
- ^ 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.
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Molineux, Crisp (1730-92), of Garboldisham, Norf.
- ^ "MOLINEUX, Crisp (1730-92), of Garboldisham, Norf. | History of Parliament Online".
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Preceded by Thomas Whately Jenison Shafto | 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 |
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