Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet

[3] Molesworth was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Cornwall in a by-election on 25 February 1784.

In September 1789, Molesworth saw he would be opposed at the 1790 general election and decided not to stand.

He said: "You called me unsolicited on my part to be your representative, and if you no longer wish for my services I am ready to return to the private situation from whence you took me.

[4] His youngest daughter Caroline Molesworth (1794–1872) was a botanist whose observations were published in 1880 as The Cobham Journals: abstracts and summaries of meteorological and phenological observations made by Miss Caroline Molesworth, at Cobham, Surrey, in the years 1825-1850.

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Arms of St Aubyn, as quartered by the Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets of Pencarrow: Ermine, on a cross sable five bezants [ 1 ]