The Molteno Family Tree
James Tennant Molteno, Sir
1865 - 1936 (71 years)-
Name James Tennant Molteno [1, 2] Suffix Sir Birth 5 Jan 1865 Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa 
[1] Baptism 19 Feb 1865 Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa [1] Gender Male Death 16 Sep 1936 London [1] Burial Borough, Surrey [1] Notes - One of John Charles Molteno’s sons. Brilliant intellectually and a good sportsman, he was one of John Charles’ sons who was sent to Cambridge, where he studied Law. It was while he was there that he met his wife, Clare Holland Pryor. They got m married shortly after his return to the Cape, but it did not turn out to be a happy relationship for either of them. Instead James threw his energies into politics. He was elected to the Cape Parliament in the 1890s and remained an MP for nearly quarter of a century. He made his name politically when he broke with the aggressively imperialist politics of Cecil John Rhodes. This led him to become prominent in the Afrikaner Bond, and at one point its parliamentary leader temporarily. James opposed the Boer War, and spent a couple of years during it travelling around the remoter reaches of the Cape Colony defending in the courts and before courts martial Boer ‘Rebels’ – ie Dutch farmers in the Cape who allegedly gave assistance to their relatives and fellow Dutch-speakers living across the Orange River in the Boer Republics. After the War ended in 1902, James was elected Speaker of the Cape legislature. When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, he was elected the first Speaker of the Union Parliament. He wrote in retirement two volumes of reminiscences, one of which is available on-line.
- For more information about James Tennant Molteno see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tennant_Molteno
Person ID I942 Molteno Genealogy Last Modified 21 Jan 2018
Father John Charles Molteno, Sir, b. 5 Jun 1814, Peckham, Camberwell, London, England d. 1 Sep 1886, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (Age 72 years) Mother Elizabeth Maria Jarvis, b. 20 Jan 1831, Western Cape, South Africa d. 8 Apr 1874, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (Age 43 years) Marriage 20 Oct 1851 [3] Family ID F140 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Clarissa Celia Holland-Pryor, b. 5 Jan 1865, Sutton, Surrey d. 1944 (Age 78 years) Marriage 1889 Children 1. Clarissa Molteno, b. 1890 d. 24 Mar 1947, South Africa (Age 57 years)2. Vincent Holland Pryor Molteno, b. 22 Nov 1892, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa d. 1972 (Age 79 years)3. Monica Celia Molteno, b. 4 Nov 1895, Southsea, Hampshire d. 16 May 1989, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 93 years)4. Audrey Courtenay Molteno, b. 5 Mar 1904, Surrey d. 19 Apr 1991, Torbay, Devon (Age 87 years)Family ID F289 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Nov 2018
- One of John Charles Molteno’s sons. Brilliant intellectually and a good sportsman, he was one of John Charles’ sons who was sent to Cambridge, where he studied Law. It was while he was there that he met his wife, Clare Holland Pryor. They got m married shortly after his return to the Cape, but it did not turn out to be a happy relationship for either of them. Instead James threw his energies into politics. He was elected to the Cape Parliament in the 1890s and remained an MP for nearly quarter of a century. He made his name politically when he broke with the aggressively imperialist politics of Cecil John Rhodes. This led him to become prominent in the Afrikaner Bond, and at one point its parliamentary leader temporarily. James opposed the Boer War, and spent a couple of years during it travelling around the remoter reaches of the Cape Colony defending in the courts and before courts martial Boer ‘Rebels’ – ie Dutch farmers in the Cape who allegedly gave assistance to their relatives and fellow Dutch-speakers living across the Orange River in the Boer Republics. After the War ended in 1902, James was elected Speaker of the Cape legislature. When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, he was elected the first Speaker of the Union Parliament. He wrote in retirement two volumes of reminiscences, one of which is available on-line.
