1469 Sir Lewis Molesworth

Constituency : Bodmin  1900-06 ( Liberal  Unionist )

Lewis  took  over  from  Leonard  Courtney  who  had  been  de-selected  at  Bodmin  for  his opposition  to  the  Boer  War.

Lewis  was  the  grandson  of  William  Molesworth, Palmerston's  Colonial  Secretary. His  father was  a   church  minister  who  converted  to  Catholicism. He  was  educated  at  Beaumont  and Stonyhurst  Colleges  making  his  presence  in  the  Liberal  Unionist  party  rather  incongruous. Lewis  owned  over  20,000  acres  and  had  interests  in  Jamaica,  mining  and  banking.He contested  Launceston  in  1892.

Lewis  made  little  contribution  in  Parliament.

Towards  the  end  of  his  term  in  1905, Lewis  wrote  to  his  Liberal  Unionist  Association  advising  them  that  he  could  not  undertake  another  election  campaign  due  to  the  state  of  his  health.

He  died  suddenly  in  1912  aged  58.