Richard Molesworth
3rd Viscount Molesworth (1726 - 1758)
Parents
- Robert Molesworth (1656 - 1725), Viscount Molesworth of Swords, Member of Parliament for County Dublin (Parliament of Ireland)
- Laetitia Coote (ca 1658 - 1730)
Famille
- Marié en 1717, avec Jane Lucas (ca 1690 - 1742), dont
- Mary (ca 1720 - ca 1775)
- Marié le 17 février 1744, avec Mary Jenney Usher (1728 - 1763), dont
- Louisa (1749 - 1824)
Occupations
- Member of Parliament for Swords (1715 - 1727)
- colonel of the Inniskilling Regiment of Foot (1725 - 1732)
- colonel of Viscount Molesworth's Regiment of Dragoons (1732 - 1737)
- colonel of the 5th Regiment of Dragoons (1737 - 1758)
- commander-in-chief, Ireland (1751 - 1758)
- privy counsellor for Ireland
- master-general of the Ordnance in Ireland
- field marshal
Distinctions
- fellowship of the Royal Society