[1][2] Molyneux was the son of Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett, a physical education instructor at Harvard University, and Virginia Josephine Lewis.

[4]By 1881 he had come to Britain, where he made his acting debut playing Othello and Richard III in North London.

[4] His self-financed productions proving unviable, he rejoined the Jubilee Singers, who were by now touring the United Kingdom.

Unemployed in 1886, he secured three years work touring Scotland with a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

[1] Around 1889 he returned to America, where he lived with his lawyer brother in Washington DC, and died there "from brain trouble" in 1891.