MOLE, John Henry. b. Alnwick, Northumberland 1814; began painting miniatures 1835; painted landscapes and figure subjects in water-colours; associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colours 1847, member 1848, contributed to annual exhibitions of the society which became the Royal Institute of painters in water-colours 1884, vice pres. 1884; exhibited 11 figure subjects at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1845–80. d. 7 Guildford place, Russell sq. London 13 Dec. 1886.
MOLESWORTH, John Edward Nassau (only son of John Molesworth). b. London 4 Feb. 1790; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. and D.D. 1838; C. of Millbrook, Hampshire 1812–28; C. of Wicksworth, Derbyshire 1828 for two months only; V. of St. Martin’s with St. Paul, Canterbury 1829–39; one of the six preachers at Canterbury 1829; V. of Minster-in-Thanet 1839; V. of Rochdale 3 March 1840 to death; promoted the Rochdale vicarage act 1866 by which the 13 chapels of ease were converted into parish churches and their endowments raised; contributed to the British magazine and Encyclopædia Metropolitana; editor of The penny Sunday reader. Canterbury 14 vols. 1835–41, and of Common sense or everybody’s magazine 2 vols. 1842–43; author of The rick-burners, a tale 1830; Overbury, or some advantages of an established church, a tale 1834, 2 ed. 1860; The pulpit pocket companion and liturgical companion 1836; Resistance to church rates, a letter to the people of England 1836, 5 ed. 1854; The domestic chaplain, sermons on family duties 2 vols. 1838; The parish church 1842 and 30 other books. d. Rochdale vicarage 21 April 1877. bur. St. Martin’s, Castleton Moor, Lancs. Raines’s Vicars of Rochdale (Chetham Soc. 1883), ii 325–76.
MOLESWORTH, James Thomas (brother of 7 Viscount Molesworth 1786–1875). b. 1795; lieut. 6 Bombay N.I. 4 April 1816; captain 11 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, retired 24 April 1837; second assistant commissary general 1827–35; author with Thomas and George Candy of Marathee-English and English-Marathee dictionary. Bombay 2 vols. 1831–47, he worked for six years preparing the second edition published 1857; never made use of his designation the honourable. d. Clifton 13 July 1872. J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 305–6.
MOLESWORTH, Sir Robert (only son of Hickman Blayney Molesworth). b. Dublin 3 Nov. 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1833; called to the Irish bar at King’s Inns, Dublin 1828; emigrated to Adelaide 1852; admitted to the bar of Victoria, Australia 1853, solicitor general 25 Nov. 1855 to 17 June 1856; a puisne judge of the colony 17 June 1856, primary judge in equity 1857, retired 1886; chief judge in court of mines; knighted by patent 9 July 1886. d. Edlington, Hawthorne, Melbourne 17 Oct. 1890.
MOLESWORTH, Sir William, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, 7 baronet 1789–1823). b. Upper Brook st. London 23 May 1810; entered at Trin. coll. Camb., expelled for challenging his tutor to fight a duel; finished his education at univ. of Edinb.; M.P. East Cornwall 1832–7; projected The London Review, April 1835, which he transferred to J. S. Mill 1837; on the first committee of the Reform club 1836; obtained a parliamentary committee to inquire into the system of transportation 1837 and wrote the report; M.P. Leeds 1837–41; M.P. Southwark 1845 to death; sheriff of Cornwall 1842; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; first comr. of the board of works 5 Jany. 1853 to 2 July 1855; colonial secretary 21 July 1855 to death; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1835; edited The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury 11 vols. 1839–45, also Hobbes’s Latin works 5 vols. 1839–45, which cost him £6,000. d. 87 Eaton place, London 22 Oct. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 27 Oct. The philosophical radicals of 1832, comprising the life of Sir W. Molesworth, &c. By Mrs. Grote (1866); Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 416–19, portrait; I.L.N. xviii 341, 342 (1851) portrait, xxvii 489, 490 (1855) portrait.
Note.—He m. July 1844 Andalusia only dau. of James Bruce Carstairs of county Kinross. She had m. (1) Temple West of Mathon lodge, Worcester, who d. 13 April 1839. She made her debut as a singer at Drury Lane as Diana Vernon in Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1827 under the stage name of Andalusia Grant. Her last appearance was as Hymen in ‘As you like it’ at Drury lane in 1841. She entertained literary men and others in London and at Pencarrow in Cornwall for many years. d. 87 Eaton place, London 16 May 1888.
MOLESWORTH, William Nassau (eld. son of John Edward Nassau Molesworth 1790–1877). b. Millbrook near Southampton 8 Nov. 1816; ed. at King’s sch. Canterbury and St. John’s and Pembroke colleges, Cambridge; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; LL.D. Glasgow 1883; C. of Rochdale 1839–41; P.C. of St. Andrew’s ch. Ancoats, Manchester 1841–4; V. of St. Clement, Spotland near Rochdale 1844–89; hon. canon of Manchester cath. 1881; author of Secular education, an important element of religious education 1857; Essay on the French alliance 1860; Plain lectures on astronomy 1862; The history of the reform bill of 1832. 1864; Prize essay on the great importance of an improved system of education for the upper and middle classes 1867; The history of England from 1830. 3 vols. 1871–3, 5th thousand 1874; History of the church of England from 1660. 1882; edited with his father Common Sense 1842–3. d. Rochdale 19 Dec. 1890. bur. Spotland. Biograph, vi 82–4 (1881); I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1891 p. 4, portrait.
MOLINEUX, Thomas. b. 1803; double-bass player; a pianoforte manufacturer; invented the Molineux action for pianos patented 28 April 1860; managing director of St. James’ hall, London many years. d. London about 31 Jany. 1891.
MOLINI, Charles Frederick (son of John James Molini). b. Haymarket, London 9 Jany. 1789; clerk to Abraham Favenc, merchant and then to S. Dobree and Sons; a bookseller at 14 Paternoster row 1830–41, at 17 King William st. Strand 1841 to death as a dealer in Italian books and an agent for Italian marbles, alabasters, etc.; London agent for his cousin Giuseppe Molini of Florence about 1818 to death. d. 17 King William st. London 21 April 1860. Bookseller, July 1860 p. 417.
MOLIQUE, William Bernhard (son of M. Molique, stadtmusikus). b. Nuremberg 7 Oct. 1803; violinist Vienna; leader of band, Munich 1820, and Stuttgart 1826–49; resided in London 1849–66; retired to Canstadt 1866; composer of upwards of 100 pieces of music, nearly all of them published in London, among these were Five sets, each of six German songs 1845–8; Three sacred songs from the Psalms 1849; Six melodies for flute and harp 1851; Flying leaves, six pieces for the concertina 1856; Abraham, oratorio. Op. 65 full score, produced at Norwich festival 1860; Three duets for two violins 1860; On parting, song written by lord Byron 1866; I know thou dost love me, song, words by Hoffman 1873. d. Canstadt near Stuttgart 10 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of Biography, June 1869 p. 484.