Vivian Molyneux
Sir Vivian Molyneux was an English scholar and traveller, who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.Biography
Molyneux was the son of Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet of Sefton and his wife Frances, the daughter of Sir Gilbert Gerard and Anne Radcliffe. He was educated in Brazen Nose College, Oxford, he matriculated on 24 November 1609, aged 14, and was awarded his B.A. on 1 July 1612. He was admitted to Grays Inn on 2 February 1612. He was entered on the roll of the Preston Guild in 1602, 1622 and 1642.
He travelled in foreign countries and became a Roman Catholic while in Rome. He returned to England and was knighted on 27 July 1639 by King Charles I at Berwick. In 1640 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the English army commanded by Earl of Northumberland. In the Civil War he suffered for the Royalist cause.
