Percy Molteno
Percy Alport Molteno (12 September 1861 – 19 September 1937) was a Cape Colony-born lawyer, businessman, philanthropist and politician who served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire from 1906 to 1918.[1][2]
Molteno was born in the Cape Colony – the second son of Sir John C Molteno who later served as the Cape's first Prime Minister. After training as a lawyer he moved to Britain as a young man to work for the shipping company of his father-in-law, Sir Donald Currie. Molteno was a prolific letter-writer who corresponded with many of the leading political figures of the colony and was a staunch opponent of the Boer War within the British Liberal party. These views made him a divisive figure both inside and outside his own party: Henry Simpson Lunn reports fearing that his windows would be smashed if word got out that Molteno was present at his club, while Winston Churchill once refused to attend a dinner if he was to be sat next to him.[3] Molteno went on to enter the House of Commons as the Member for Dumfriesshire in 1906.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Selections from the correspondence of Percy Alport Molteno 1892-1914". Van Riebeeck Society. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ "Mr Percy Molteno". Hansard. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ^ Lunn, Henry (1918). Chapters from my Life. London: Gassell and Company. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
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