Charles William Hylton Molyneux, 5th Earl of Sefton, (25 June 1867 – 2 December 1901) was a British peer.

Biography

Molyneux was the eldest son of

William Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton William Philip Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton, (14 October 1835 – 27 June 1897) was a British Peerage, peer. Biography Born Viscount Molyneux, he was the eldest son of Charles Molyneux, 3rd Earl of Sefton and his wife, Mary. He was educated ...

(1835–1897) by his wife Hon. Cecil Emily Hylton-Jolliffe, daughter of the 1st Baron Hylton. He was known as "Mull" within the family. He held a commission in the

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Yeomanry Cavalry, and was ADC to the

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1889–1892. Lord Sefton never married. Shortly before succeeding to his titles in 1897, as a fit young man of 30, he suffered a bad fall in the Altcar Steeplechase which left him severely brain damaged, a hopeless invalid and mentally unstable. His engagement to the Lady Mary Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of the 1st Earl of Ancaster was called off and he eventually died from his injuries. While adaptations were made for him at the family's London townhouse, Sefton House, the 5th Earl eventually died at his family seat,

Croxteth Hall Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England. It is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux (surname), Molyneux family, the Earl of Sefton, Earls of Sefton. ...

, near Liverpool, 2 December 1901, aged only 34, and was buried nearby in St Chad's churchyard,

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. On his death, his title passed to his brother

Osbert Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton Osbert Cecil Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton, (21 February 1871 – 16 June 1930), styled The Honourable Osbert Molyneux until 1901, was a British courtier and Liberal politician. He served as Master of the Horse under Sir Henry Campbell-Bann ...

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