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John Molesworth (priest)

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and built parish schools. The value of the living increased with the spread of factories over the vicarage estate, the railway station and the canal terminus. In 1866, when his income had reached £5,000, Molesworth promoted the Rochdale Vicarage Act, by which 13
239:. It followed the marriage of Molesworth's eldest son, Guilford (died 1925) to Maria Bridges, earlier that year. Robert Bridges did not at first find his step-father easy to relate to, but later found him hospitable to his friend 487: 235:, and widow of John Thomas Bridges (died 1853), of St. Nicholas Court, Thanet, and Walmer. This second marriage brought Molesworth a further nine children, and he became in particular the step-father of 312: 63:, John Edward Nassau Molesworth was born in London on 4 February 1790, only son of John Molesworth and his wife Frances, daughter of Matthew Hill. He was educated under 190: 414: 338: 306: 519: 208:
Molesworth was twice married, firstly in 1825, to Harriet who was both the daughter of W. Mackinnon of Newton Park and the sister of the MP
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at Canterbury; recommended him unsuccessfully for the vicarage of Leeds when Hook was elected, and in 1839 presented him to the vicarage of
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A few months later (3 March 1840), Howley presented Molesworth to Rochdale. He succeeded the absentee vicar
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On a number of fronts, Molesworth wrote controversial letters and tracts, and he fell out with
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Secondly, in 1854, Molesworth married Harriett Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev.
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in 1808, he graduated B.A. in 1812, M.A. in 1817, B.D. and D.D. in 1838.
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and solicitor John Molesworth (died 1886), great-great-grandfather of
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage
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Inquiry into the Origin and Intent of Primitive Sacrifice
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Besides sermons and pamphlets, Molesworth published
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John Edward Nassau Molesworth

National Portrait Gallery's
High Church
Rochdale
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
Alexander Crombie
Trinity College, Oxford
Millbrook
William Howley
Wirksworth
Six Preachers
Minster-in-Thanet
William Robert Hay
Dissenters
John Bright
church rates
Rochdale Grammar School
chapels of ease
James Prince Lee
Castleton Moor
Walter Farquhar Hook
John Davison
Thomas Rennell
Dean of Winchester
Great Reform Bill
Hugh James Rose
The British Magazine
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
William Alexander Mackinnon

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