Mordaunt is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

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Charles Mordaunt (disambiguation) Charles Mordaunt may refer to: *Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth, English soldier *Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough and 2nd Earl of Monmouth *Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet, MP Warwickshire * Sir Char ...

, several earls and baronets *

Harry Mordaunt Lieutenant-General Harry Mordaunt (29 March 1663 – 4 January 1720) was an English Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and House of Commons of Great Britain, British House of Commons between 1692 and ...

(1663–1720), English lieutenant-general * Henry Mordaunt (Royal Navy officer) (died 1710), English politician and Royal Navy captain *

David Mordaunt David John Mordaunt (24 August 1937 – 28 November 2020) was an English cricketer, teacher and expeditioner. Cricket career Mordaunt was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and was a prominent schoolboy cricketer. A right-handed batsma ...

(born 1937), English former cricketer *

Elinor Mordaunt Evelyn May Clowes, known by the pseudonym Elinor Mordaunt (7 May 1872 – 25 June 1942), was an English author, writer and traveller born in Nottinghamshire, England. Her travels included Mauritius and Australia; she undertook a wide variety of ...

(1872–1942), English author and traveler * Gerald Mordaunt (1873–1959), English cricketer * Harriet Mordaunt (1848–1906), wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, and alleged mistress of Edward VII * Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (1621–1697), English soldier, peer, and courtier *

Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet Sir Henry John Mordaunt, 12th Baronet (12 July 1867 – 15 January 1939) was an English baronet and cricketer. Mordaunt was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. Cricket career Mordaunt made his first-class debut for Hampshire i ...

(1867–1939), English cricketer * John Mordaunt (disambiguation), numerous persons *

Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (21 September 1538 – 16 June 1601) was an English peer and politician. He was the son of John Mordaunt, 2nd Baron Mordaunt and Ela (née FitzLewis) Mordaunt. He became the third Baron Mordaunt in 1571 on the ...

(1538-1601), English peer and politician *Norman Mordaunt, co-founder in 1967 of British loudspeaker company

Mordaunt-Short Mordaunt-Short is a British loudspeaker manufacturer. It is currently a subsidiary of Audio Partnership Plc., having been bought from TGI Plc. in 1999. History In 1967 Norman Mordaunt and Rodney Short combined their efforts and started a compa ...

* Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1842) (1842–1923), English cricketer and clergyman *

Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1876) Osbert Cautley Mordaunt (26 May 1876 – 20 October 1949) played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1905 and 1910 and for various amateur teams in the years up to 1914. He was born at Flax Bourton, Somerset and died at Bells Yew Green, E ...

(1876–1949), English cricketer * Penny Mordaunt (born 1973), British politician * Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), British officer and poet

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Mordaunt Bisset Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset (1825 – 7 July 1884) of Bagborough in Somerset, 22nd Scottish feudal baron of Lessendrum in Aberdeen, Scotland, was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament and a famous west-country Master of Staghounds. Or ...

(1825–c. 1884), British politician and Member of Parliament * Mordaunt Cracherode (died 1773 or possibly 1768), British Army officer *

J. Mordaunt Crook Joseph Mordaunt Crook, (born 27 February 1937), generally known as J. Mordaunt Crook, is an English architectural historian and specialist on the Georgian and Victorian periods. He is an authority on the life and work of the Victorian architec ...

(born 1937), English architectural historian *

Mordaunt Doll Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll (5 April 1888 – 30 June 1966) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of Charles Fitzroy Doll, he was educated at Charterhouse School where he excelled as a schoolboy cricketer between 1905 and 1907. He score ...

(1888–1966), English cricketer *

Mordaunt Hall Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for ''The New York Times'', working from October 1924 to September 1934.Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740 – 24 September 1815) was son of Sir Roger Martin, 3rd Baronet and Sophia Mordaunt. He inherited his baronetcy from his father, who was the third Martin Baronet, upon his death in 1762. He lived in Burn ...

(c. 1740–1815), English country gentleman *

Mordaunt Shairp Mordaunt Shairp (13 March 1887 – 18 January 1939) was an English dramatist and screenwriter born at Totnes. Educated at St Paul's School, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he spent much of his life as a schoolmaster in London and wrote ...

(1887–1939), English dramatist and screenwriter

Fictional characters

*Mordaunt, a main villain of the 1845 novel '' Twenty Years After'' by Alexandre Dumas *Mordaunt, the central male character in the 1800 novel ''Mordaunt, Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners in Various Countries; including the memoirs of a French Lady of Quality'' by John Moore (Scottish physician) *Mordaunt Heatherstone, son of General John Berthier Heatherstone in the 1888 novel ''

The Mystery of Cloomber ''The Mystery of Cloomber'' is a novel by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1888 in the ''Pall Mall Gazette''. Plot summary The book is narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scot who has moved with his family fr ...

'' by Arthur Conan Doyle Mordaunt Reeves, a character in The Viaduct Murder by Ronald Knox, 1925.

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