Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth ( 1680 - 1758 )

Birth: 1680 Death: 12 October 1758 Burial: Kensington, Middlesex Profession: Soldier Education: Middle Temple (admitted 1700) Career: Abandoned his studies to go to Holland and join the Army as a volunteer; Ensign, then Captain in the Royal Regiment of Foot; ADC to the Duke of Marlborough, whose life he saved at the Battle of Ramillies (1706); Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards (1707); purchased a regiment of foot with which he served in Catalonia under the Duke of Argyll (1710); Lieutenant of the Ordanance in Ireland (1714); raised 19th Light Dragoons (1715); MP for Swords in the Irish Parliament (1715-1724); Colonel of Molesworth's Foot (1725); Colonel, 9th Dragoons (1732-1737); Colonel, 5th Dragoons (1737-death); Privy Councillor (Ireland) (1733); Major General (1735); Deputy Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland (1736); Lieutenant General (1739); Master General of the Ordnance (1739-death); General of the Horse (1741); General (1746); Commander in Chief of the Army in Ireland (1751); Field Marshal (1757) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 15/03/1722 Proposers: James Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn; Sir Hans Sloane.