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The senior branch of the Sefton family had been staunch
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344:. Of the Sefton Molyneux family, crusaders Richard (d. 1290) and William Molyneux (d. 1320) are entombed within the church, and are its oldest inhabitants. Their effigies now lie beneath an arch moulding set into the wall in the Molyneux chapel, which is outside the 14th-century church walls.
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was granted to Sir Robert
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448:(c. 1748β1819), wife of the 1st Earl of Sefton
707:(born 1939), Trinidadian jazz steelpan player
603:(1748β1794), previously 8th Viscount Molyneux
520:(1531β1597), French-born statesman in Ireland
478:(born 1948), British sociologist and feminist
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607:William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton
490:(born 1959), British computer game designer
452:James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead
360:, while there were also branches seated at
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508:(born 1966), Canadian right-wing activist
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