Name Sir Molesworth, Died February 22, 1798 | Deposed date 1798 | |
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Role Molesworth-St Aubyn baronets | ||
Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet (30 June 1758 – 22 February 1798) was a British politician and one of the Molesworth baronets of Pencarrow, Cornwall. He was elected MP for Cornwall on 25 February 1784 and served until 1790.
Sir William was the son of Sir John Molesworth, 5th Baronet (12 March 1729 – 20 October 1775), who was MP for Cornwall from 1765 until 1775. Sir William was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge. His youngest daughter Caroline Molesworth (1794-1872) was a botanist whose observations were published in 1880 as The Cobham Journals: abstracts and summaries of meteorological and phenological observations made by Miss Caroline Molesworth, at Cobham, Surrey, in the years 1825-1850.
On Sir William's death on 22 February 1798, Arscott Ourry Molesworth (1789 – 26 December 1823), his son, succeeded to the baronetcy.