J. W. Molyneux-Child

Lieutenant-Colonel John Walter Molyneux-Child, TD (1939 - 2 February 2015) was a British Army officer, mechanical engineer, and businessman in electronics.

Late in life he bought Le Manoir de Tachau, near Duras, in the Dordogne, France, which he renovated and ran as a holiday business for the British.

[3] In 2011, he appeared in the television series Little England which profiled the experiences of British holiday-makers and expatriates in France in a lightly humorous way.

Acquiring the manors kindled Molyneux-Child's interest in their history and in the history of the manorial system generally and he began to research the subject and wrote a book of his findings, The evolution of the English manorial system, that was published in 1987.

[1] Molyneux-Child exercised his right as lord of the manor to appoint manorial officials such as ale tasters and hangmen which he combined with fund-raising for charity.