She was baptised on 4 April 1897 in the Parish of St. Andrew, Haverstock Hill in London Borough of Camden.

[1] Bolton joined the Fabian Society in 1916, and became private secretary to Beatrice and Sydney Webb.

[1] She was appointed to Crawley New Town Development Corporation 1947–56 a member of the working group developing a master Plan for Crawley alongside Sir Thomas Penberthy Bennett, Lawrence Neal, Alwyn Sheppard Fidler, Caroline Haslett, Sir Edward Gillett, Eric Walter Pasold and Alderman James Marshall.

[5] The National Portrait Gallery hold a photograph of Molly Bolton by Elliott & Fry in its collections.

[6] In 1922 she married Douglas Joseph Bolton (1890-1983) an electrical engineer and lecturer at Regent Street Polytechnic, in St Albans.