Life
1810-1855 [8th baronet]; editor; ed. Trinity College, Cambridge, where
he was expelled on offering to fight a duel with his tutor, and continued
education at Glasgow; MP various English constituencies; fnd. London
Review, 1835; commissioner of Board of Works, 1853; colonial secretary,
1855; ed. Hobbes’s Works. ODNB
References
Dictionary of National Biography also lists are John Edward
Nassau Molesworth, vicar of Rochdale (1790-1877); and William Nassau Molesworth
(1816-1890), canon of Manchester, author of History of England from
1830 (1871-72).
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