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Vivian Molyneux

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Sir Vivian Molyneux (c. 1596 – after 1642) was an English scholar and traveller, who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

Biography

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Molyneux was the son of Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet of Sefton and his wife Frances, the daughter of Sir Gilbert Gerard and Anne Radcliffe.[1] He was educated in Brazen Nose College, Oxford, he matriculated (entered) on 24 November 1609, aged 14, and was awarded his B.A. on 1 July 1612.[2][3] He was admitted to Grays Inn on 2 February 1612. He was entered on the roll of the Preston Guild in 1602, 1622 and 1642.[3]

He travelled in foreign countries and became a Roman Catholic while in Rome (having been brought up a puritan).[2] He returned to England and was knighted on 27 July 1639 by King Charles I at Berwick.[4] In 1640 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the English army commanded by Earl of Northumberland (during the Second Bishops' War with Scotland).[3] In the Civil War he suffered for the Royalist cause.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ Cokayne 1900, p. 4.
  2. ^ a b c Molyneux 1904, p. 75 §242.
  3. ^ a b c Howard 1893, p. 141.
  4. ^ "1639, July 27 (26). Vivian Molineux (Mulleneux), lieutenant colonel [(at Berwick by the King)]" (Shaw 1906, p. 206).

References

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  • Cokayne, George E, ed. (1900). Complete Baronetage (1611–1625). Vol. 1. Exeter: W. Pollard & company. pp. 3–4.
  • Shaw, William Arthur (1906). The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. Vol. 2. London: Sherratt and Hughes.
Attribution

https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl09howa