Sir John Molesworth, 5th Baronet

Sir John Molesworth, 5th Baronet (1729–1775) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1775.

He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 14 March 1749 and was awarded MA on 17 May 1751.

[2] Molesworth was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Cornwall in a by-election in 1765.

He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 4 April 1766 and completed the work on the rebuilding of Pencarrow.

In 1771 Molesworth started the Truro Bank, together with Edward Eliot and Humphrey Mackworth Praed.