1ST VISCOUNT ROBERT MOLESWORTH MOLESW...
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Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 661
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
1ST VISCOUNT ROBERT MOLESWORTH MOLESWORTH (1656-1725)
, came of an old Northamptonshire family
.
His father Robert (d
.
1656) was a Cromwellian who made a fortune in Dublin, and he himself supported See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
of Orange and in 1695 became a prominent member of the Irish privy council
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In 1716 he was created a viscount
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He was succeeded by his two sons, John, 2nd viscount (1699-1726), and Richard 3rd viscount (1680-1758), the latter of whom saved Marlborough's life at the battle of Ramillies and rose to be a See also: - FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
- marshal
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The 3rd viscount's son Richard Nassau (1748-1793) succeeded to the title, which has descended accordingly
.
A great- grandson of the 1st viscount, JOHN EDWARD NASSAU MOLESWORTH(179o-1877), vicar of Rochdale, was a well-known High Churchman and controversialist; and two of his sons became prominent men—WILLIAM NASSAU MOLESWORTH (1816-189o), author of History of England 183o-2871 (1871-1873), History of the Reform Bill (1865), and History of the See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of
2 J
.
H
.
Jeans, Dynamical Theory of Gases, ch. ix
.
England (1882); and SIR GUILFORD MOLESWORTH (b
.
1828), an eminent engineer and economist
.
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