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MOLESWORTH, RICHARD NASSAU, 4th VISCOUNT MOLESWORTH (I), only son of Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (I) PC (I), Field Marshal in the Army and Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Ven. William Usher, Archdeacon of Clonfert; b. 4 Nov 1748; at school under Markham (List of noblemen appended to admission records, Chapter Muniments); succ. father as 4th Viscount Molesworth (I) 12 Oct 1758; his uncle, mother and two sisters were burnt to death in Upper Brook Street, London, 6 May 1763; he “was at home that day, and was to have lain there, but not having done his task was obliged to go back to school” (Walpole, Letters, ed. Toynbee, v, 323-5); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. 11 Oct 1765; d. unm. 23 Jan 1793.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.