He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 13 December 1622, aged 17, and was awarded BA on 10 June 1624. He was a student of law at the Middle Temple in 1625. In 1625, he was elected a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in a double return which was probably not resolved in the time of the parliament.[5]
This election result is not recognised in his History of Parliament biography. He was definitively re-elected MP for Lostwithiel in 1626.[6]
Marriage and children
He married twice:
Firstly to Mary Southcote, a daughter of Sir George Southcote of Shillingford, Devon, MP,[7] by whom he had one son and one daughter:
Reginald Mohun, a minor at the death of his father;
Dorothy Mohun (born 1636)
Secondly, to a certain Dorothy, of unrecorded family, who survived him.[8]
Death
He died before 15 August 1642 when his will was proved.[5]
^Vivian, 1887, p.325, declared aged 15 in 1620 per Heraldic Visitation of 1620, giving a birth-date of 1605. His History of Parliament biography states his dob as c.1603, based on source: Alumni Oxonienses
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian, Exeter, 1887, p.325, pedigree of Mohun
^Vivian, 1887, p.325; Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pedigree of Chudleigh, p.190
^History of Parliament biography; marriage settlement dated 13 September 1634; Vivian, 1887, states that he found no evidence that the marriage took place (p.325, note 5)
^Vivian, 1887, p.325, note 5: "His widow was named Dorothy"
