Crisp Molineux
Crisp Molineux | |
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| Born | 1730  Saint Kitts |
| Died | 4 December 1792 (aged 61–62) 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 4 daughters.
References[edit]
- ^ 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) - ^ Molineux, Crisp (1730-92), of Garboldisham, Norf.
- ^ "MOLINEUX, Crisp (1730-92), of Garboldisham, Norf. | History of Parliament Online".
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