Thomas More Molyneux

Thomas More Molyneux (c. 1724–1776), was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1759 and 1776.

[2] Molyneux succeeded his brother James as Member of Parliament for Haslemere being elected unopposed in a by-election in 1759.

In the 1761 general election he and Philip Carteret Webb, the other sitting member at Haslemere, won a serious contest against candidates supported the Burrell family.

The agreement continued and in the 1774 general election he again contested the borough jointly with the Burrells.

A clergyman wrote of him that he was one of the few original men in the world with the comment “Politeness has the good effect of hiding what is offensive in us, but it covers at the same time many entertaining oddities, and he had more of them than any of our neighbours.” [2] The Loseley estate passed to his sisters Cassandra and Jane who also died childless.