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Sir Molyneux Nepean, 2nd Baronet (20 September 1783 – 4 June 1856) was an English first-class cricketer who played a single match for the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Life

He was the eldest son of Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet and his wife Margaret Skinner. He was educated at Eton College. In 1801 he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1805 and M.A. in 1808. A friend from Cambridge was George Pryme.

Nepean entered Lincoln's Inn in 1803. He became clerk to the Supreme Court of Jamaica, a post he held for nearly 30 years.

As a cricketer, Nepean is recorded in one match, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0 not out. He succeeded as 2nd Baronet Nepean of Bothenhampton in October 1822.

Family

Nepean married first, in 1813, Charlotte Tilghman (died 1838), youngest daughter of Philemon (or Philip) Tilghman, son of James Tilghman and brother of Tench Tilghman, who served in the Royal Navy and his wife Harriet, daughter of Mark Milbanke. They had three sons and six daughters; the eldest son Molyneux succeeded his father in his title. The third son, Evan Philip Tilghman (born 1818) served in the Bengal Army. Of the daughters, Frances Augusta married James Blair Grove R.N.

He married secondly, in 1852, Lydia Clark Wright (d. 1871), eldest daughter of William Clark Wright, of Murton House, Northumberland, by Charlotte Sarah Parr, and sister of William Barton Wright; they had one daughter, Lilian Constance, who died young in 1853.

Arms

Coat of arms of Molyneux Nepean

Crest On a mount Vert a goat passant Sable charged on the side with two Ermine spots in fesse Or collared and horned Gold Escutcheon Gules a fesse wavy Erminois between three mullets Argent. Motto Respice (Look Back)

References

1. ^ "Nepean, Molyneux Hyde (NPN801MH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. Prime, George; Bayne, Alicia Prime (1870). Autobiographic recollections of George Pryme, Esq. M.A., sometime fellow of Trinity College, Professor of political economy in the University of Cambridge, and M.P. for the borough. Cambridge : Deighton, Bell and Co. p. 49.
3. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Review. J.H. and J. Parker. 1856. p. 118.
4. "Molyneux Nepean". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
5. "William Barton Wright, Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk.
6. Tillman, Stephen Frederick (1946). Tilghman-Tillman family, 1225-1945. [Ann Arbor, Mich.: Lithoprinted by Edwards Bros. pp. 88 and 83.
7. ^ Keith, Charles Penrose (1883). The provincial councillors of Pennsylvania who held office between 1733 and 1776, and those earlier councilors who were some time chief magistrates of the province and their descendants. Philadelphia. p. 413.
8. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. 1896.

Bibliography

• Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite.

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