MOSTYN, DANIEL, brother of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (adm. 1716, qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1725; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1729, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1729, scholar 17 Apr 1730; 1st in “ordo” 1732/3; BA 1732/3; d. 1733.

MOSTYN, JOHN, third son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart., MP, and Bridget, only dau. of Darcy Savage, Leighton, Cheshire; b.; adm.; KS 1693; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1698, matr. 4 Jul 1698, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1698 – void 1711; BA 1702; MA 22 Mar 1704/5; d. unm. 24 Dec 1720.

MOSTYN, JOHN, brother of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (adm. 1716, qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1722; KS 1723; Capt. of the School 1727; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 – deprived 10 Dec 1734 (absence); Ensign, 16th Foot 29 Feb 1732; Capt., 6 Nov 1736; Capt. -Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 2 Sep 1742; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 2 Apr 1743; wounded at battle of Fontenoy 1745; Brevet Col. and ADC to George II 3 Dec 1747 (listed as ADC, Chamberlayne 1748); Col., 7th Foot (Royal Fusiliers) 26 Jan 1751 – Jul 1754, 13th Dragoons 8 Jul 1754 – Oct 1758; Maj. -Gen., 8 Jul 1757; Col., 5th Dragoons 18 Oct 1758 – Aug 1760; Lieut. -Gen., 8 Apr 1759; Col., 7th Dragoons 18 Aug 1760 – May 1763, 1st Dragoon Guards, from 13 May 1763; Gen., 25 May 1772; MP Malton 30 Dec 1741-68; Groom of the Bedchamber from 20 Jan 1746; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Minorca, from 2 Mar 1768; defendant in 1773 in an action successfully brought by Anthony Fabrigas, who he had banished from the island (Howell, State Trials, xx, 81-238); d. 13 Feb 1779. DNB.

MOSTYN, SIR ROGER, BART., elder son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (adm. 1716, qv); b. 13 Nov 1734; adm. Apr 1745 (Hawkins'); left 1751; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Jun 1751; succ. father as 5th baronet 24 Mar 1758; Grand Tour (Italy) 1763; MP Flintshire from 26 Apr 1758; Lord Lieut., Flintshire, from 1761; Col., Flintshire Militia (occurs 1774); m. 19 May 1766 Margaret, dau. of Rev. Hugh Wynne LLD, Prebendary of Salisbury; d. 26 Jul 1796.

MOSTYN, ROGER, brother of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (adm. 1716, qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Mar 1727/8; Min. Can. 1734; KS 1735; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Apr 1739, scholar 30 Jun 1739; BA 1742/3; MA 1744/5; migrated to St. John’s Coll., adm. fellow commoner 12 Feb 1744/5; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1745, priest 23 Feb 1745/6 (both Norwich); Rector of Eastling, Kent 8 Mar 1745/6-52; Rector of Christleton, Cheshire, from 28 Mar 1752; Prebendary of Chester from 23 Jun 1760; Canon of Windsor from 23 Sep 1774; m. 29 Sep 1753 Mrs. Anne Thelwall; d. 11 Apr 1775.

MOSTYN, THOMAS, youngest son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (adm. 1716, qv); b. 6 Nov 1737; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1747 (Hawkins'); KS (Capt. ) 1751; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1755, matr. 28 May 1755, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1756 – void 12 Mar 1772 (expiry year of grace as R. Llanycil from 21 Mar 1771); BA 1759; MA 1762; ordained deacon 6 Jun 1762, priest 29 Jun 1763 (both Oxford); Rector of Llanycil, Merioneth 1771-82; Rector of Christleton, Cheshire, from 5 May 1775; Vicar of Northenden, Cheshire, from 13 Apr 1782; Prebendary of St. Asaph 25 Feb 1773 – 6; Prebendary of Chester from 14 May 1776; d. 5 Dec 1808.

MOSTYN-OWEN, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Mostyn-Owen, Woodhouse, Shropshire, and Harriet Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Maj. T. Cumming, Bath, Somerset; b. 9 Jun 1806; adm. 23 Sep 1819 (G); readm. 11 Apr 1822; left Christmas 1823; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 25 Sep 1823; Lieut., 4th Dragoons 1 Dec 1825; Capt., half-pay, unattached 14 Nov 1826; 1st Dragoons 18 Dec 1828; Brevet Maj., 23 Nov 1841; retd. 14 Dec 1841; d. 28 Jun 1868.

Mothersole, Denys Hartley, son of Hartley Brinkley Newton, of Pimlico, barrister-at-law and Alice Jane Mothersole; b. Oct. 8, 1899; adm. May 4, 1911 (A); left July 1916; retired from the Reserve of Officers with the hon. rank of Lieut.-Col. Oct. 8, 1949; a senior control officer, German Section, Foreign Office, 1949; m. 1st Feb. 4, 1922, Rosemary, daughter of Grant­ Mackie, of Kuala Lumpur, Malay States; 2nd Oct. 21, 1926, Ivy Muriel, daughter of Francis White, of Pretoria, S. Africa.

MOTTERAM, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS; at school c. 1600; in a bill filed in the Star Chamber, it is alleged that he had been impressed by the master of the Children of the Chapel Royal as a boy-actor for the theatre at Blackfriars (PRO, Star Chamber 5. c46/39).

MOTTERSHEAD, THOMAS, second son of Thomas Mottershead, St. Peter’s, Paul’s Wharf, London, Deputy Registrar, Court of High Commission, and Rose, dau. of Rowland Booker, St. Sepulchre’s, London; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1619, matr. 9 Dec 1619, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1641; BA 1623; MA 1626; BD 1633; ordained; committed to the Fleet for striking one of the masters at Oxford Univ. Convocation of 21 May 1628 (Wood, Hist. and Antiqs. of Oxford, ed. Gutch, ii, pt. i, 363).