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{{Short description|British peer (Irish earldom)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Earl of Sefton
| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCVO|PC|DL}}
| image = 6th Earl of Sefton, Master of the Horse, 1905 photograph from The Bystander.png
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| caption = The Earl of Sefton, photograph from ''The Bystander'', 1905
| order1 = [[Master of the Horse]]
| term_start1 = 18 December 1905
| term_end1 = 6 September 1907
| monarch1 = [[Edward VII]]
| primeminister1 = Sir [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]]
| predecessor1 =  [[William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland|The Duke of Portland]]
| successor1 = [[Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard|The Earl of Granard]]
| birth_date = 21 February 1871
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| death_date = {{death-date and age|16 June 1930|21 February 1871}}
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| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| party = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
| alma_mater =
| spouse = Lady Helena Mary Bridgeman
}}
'''Osbert Cecil Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCVO|PC|DL}} (21 February 1871 &ndash; 16 June 1930), styled '''The Honourable Osbert Molyneux''' until 1901, was a British courtier and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician. He served as [[Master of the Horse]] under [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]] from 1905 to 1907.
==Background==
Molyneux was the second son of [[William Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton]], by his wife the Honourable Cecil Emily Jolliffe (1838–1899), fifth daughter of [[William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton]]. He was commissioned a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in the [[2nd Life Guards]]. Resigning from the regular army, he was appointed a supernumerary [[Captain (BARM)|captain]] in the [[Lancashire Hussars]] [[Imperial Yeomanry]] on 4 June 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27439 |date=3 June 1902|page=3611}}</ref>
==Political career==
Lord Sefton succeeded to the earldom in December 1901 on the early death of his elder brother, and took his seat in the [[House of Lords]]. In April 1902, he was appointed a [[deputy lieutenant]] of [[Lancashire]].<ref name="apr902">{{London Gazette | issue=27426 |page=2506 | date=18 April 1902}}</ref> When the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberals]] came to power under [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]] in December 1905, Sefton was appointed [[Master of the Horse]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27873 |date=9 January 1906 |page=186 }}</ref> and sworn of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in January 1906.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27873 |date=9 January 1906 |page=182 }}</ref> He continued as Master of the Horse until September 1907. In 1926 he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the [[Royal Victorian Order]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/14193/pages/8/page.pdf |title=The Edinburgh Gazette, January 1, 1926, p.8 |access-date=22 October 2010 |archive-date=16 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516000941/http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/14193/pages/8/page.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Family==
Lord Sefton married Lady Helena Mary Bridgeman, daughter of [[George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford]], on 8 January 1898. They had three children:
*[[Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton|Hugh William Osbert Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton]] (1898&ndash;1972).
*Midshipman Hon. Cecil Richard Molyneux (1899&ndash;1916), killed in action aboard {{HMS|Lion|1910}} at the [[Battle of Jutland]] during the [[First World War]].
*Lady Evelyn Molyneux (1902&ndash;1917), died young.
Lady Helena Sefton was a favourite aunt of [[Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester]]. The wife of [[King George V]]'s son [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]] wrote of her aunt Helena: "Long before the First War, she shocked her relations by wearing trousers and going off big-game shooting with a boyfriend--needless to say, it was the trousers that caused the worst scandal. In the last War, she drove lorries, though by then she was well over seventy. She was terrifically given to good works and a very religious person. I was very impressed when she once took me down to the canteen in the docks where she often helped cook breakfast for the merchant seamen who had come in the night before or at break of dawn."<ref name="princessalice">{{cite book|last1=Duchess of Gloucester|first1=Princess Alice|title=The Memoirs of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester|date=1983|publisher=Harper Collins|location=London|page=63|edition=Hardcover}}</ref>
Lord Sefton died in June 1930, aged 59, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest and only surviving son, Hugh.
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