Percy Braybrooke Molesworth (2 April 1867 in Colombo – 25 December 1908) was a Major in the corps of Royal Engineers and an amateur astronomer.
He then was ordered to Hong Kong and three years later moved to Trincomalee on Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka).
He retired in 1906 intending to pursue astronomy full-time at his estate at Trincomalee, but he died of dysentery before he could realize his plans.
He is buried in the St Stephen's Cemetery in Docklands Road Trincomalee and the grave is two to the left of the memorial to the Royal Engineers.
It was used by Colombo University Observatory until 1988, when bandits looted the telescope's metallic parts and sold them for scrap.