Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet

Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet (1564 – 26 December 1639) of Boconnoc in Cornwall, was a prominent member of the gentry of Cornwall and an MP.

Origins He was the eldest son and heir of Sir William Mohun (d. 1587) of Boconnoc, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1572, by his first wife Elizabeth Horsey, daughter and heiress of John Horsey. He was descended from the ancient Mohun family, feudal barons of Dunster in Somerset, seated at Dunster Castle.

Career He was the Member of Parliament for Fowey in 1584 and 1586 and for East Looe in 1614. He was also elected in a double return in 1625 when four names were submitted, which was not knowingly resolved by Parliament. He was selected Sheriff of Cornwall for 1592–93 and made a Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall in 1600.

He was knighted in 1599 and created a baronet on 25 November 1612.

Marriages and children

He married three times: MP, diplomat and ambassador, by whom he had one son: This was in reference to his family being one of the heirs of the Courtenay Earls of Devon and feudal barons of Okehampton in Devon, seated at Okehampton Castle. His ancestor William Mohun of Hall in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall, had married Elizabeth Courtenay, a daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay (1427–1471) of Boconnoc and one of the four co-heiresses of the last of the old Earls of Devon. Elizabeth Mohun (born 1593), wife of John Trelawney of Trelawney in Cornwall. MP, of Ashton, Devon, and sister of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (c. 1578 – 1658), MP for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in 1621 and 1625 and for East Looe, Cornwall, in 1614. By his wife he had three sons and four daughters, including: Reginald Mohun (1605–1642), 2nd son, a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in 1626. Ferdinando Mohun, 3rd son.