Major John Elsdale Molson TD (1863–1925) was a Canadian-born British Conservative politician and member of the Molson family of Montreal that started the Molson brewery.
Occupation
politician
Position held
member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom
Major John Elsdale Molson TD (1863–1925) was a Canadian-born British Conservative politician and member of the Molson family of Montreal that started the Molson brewery.
John Molson was the son of Samuel Elsdale and Agnes Molson, born in Montreal on 6 August 1863. Educated at Cheltenham College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1889. The Medical Register for 1891 listed him as employed at the Middlesex Hospital in London having registered as a doctor on 19 September 1889.
He held a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials) from 1900 and served at home and in Egypt in World War I.
He practised for some years at Chelmsford. From 1906 he rented Goring Hall, Goring-by-Sea near Worthing, in Sussex and lived the life of a country gentleman. He died on 28 November 1925, aged 62, and his funeral was held at St Mary's Church, Goring on 2 December 1925.
