Leonard Molloy

Major Leonard Greenham Star Molloy DSO (1861–1937) was an Irish medical doctor and politician.

[1] During World War I he served in France and Headquarters (dispatches twice) and was 2nd in command of the 23rd Division.

Major Molloy was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1917.

The Times (London) in its obituary said of him "... for a generation [he was] one of the best known doctors in the north of England".

Although he was about 60 at the time, he was elected to Parliament for Blackpool in 1922 as a Conservative which was also the same year that he married Ethel Mary Willan, daughter of James Wetherell Willan a Manchester solicitor.