Miles John Glyn, 8th Baron Wolverton

Andrew married Elizabeth Celia Antonia Molteno Laws in 1965. Elizabeth (daughter of Frederick Laws and Elizabeth Virginia Molteno) was born in 1945; died in Feb 2021. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married Elizabeth Virginia Molteno Elizabeth (daughter of John Charles Molteno and Lucy Lindley Mitchell) was born on 23 Dec 1911 in Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa; died in Jul 2003 in Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 4 Mar 1860, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 21 May 1899, Kenilworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 17 Jun 1908, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Notes:

Eldest son of John Charles Molteno. At a very young age, Charlie became his father, Sir John Charles Molteno’s, secretary. In this role, he not only assisted him in his political duties as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, but also increasingly looked after his diverse business interests. Following his father’s death in 1886, Charlie managed the main family farm at Nelspoort for many years in association with his cousin, H. A. Jackson. He decided to enter politics on his own account in 1894 and was elected to the Tembuland constituency in the Transkei. He continued as an M.P., with one short break, up to the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

He married in 1897 an American, Lucy Mitchell, whose family had close South African connections, and he and Lucy settled into their new home of Sandown in Rondebosch, about four miles from the centre of Cape Town, in 1899. They lived there for the rest of their lives together. Charlie died of pneumonia following a routine operation in 1924. His political contributions included opposition to the Boer War, and a growing recognition of the overriding importance of African South Africans playing a full role in Cape politics. On his death, Ons Land described him as ‘a man of firm principles and of earnest convictions. He was a man of character and a strong personality.’


For more about John Charles Molteno see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Molteno

John married Lucy Lindley Mitchell on 23 Dec 1897 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. Lucy (daughter of Clarence Green Mitchell and Sarah Adams Lindley) was born on 4 Jun 1874 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; died on 16 Oct 1969 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: South Africa
• Residence: 1880, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA
• Departure: 25 Aug 1928, Liverpool, Lancashire; Age: 54
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1928, New York, USA

Notes:

Lucy Lindley Mitchell Molteno note her memoirs, with the help of her grand daughter, at the age 83. These go back to the American Civil War and on to South Africa.

A copy of these is available on the Molteno Family website at https://www.moltenofamily.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Lucy-Molteno-What-a-Strange-Thing-is-Memory-pdf.pdf