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Mordaunt is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:


Surname

* Charles Mordaunt (disambiguation), several earls and baronets *
Harry Mordaunt Lieutenant-General Harry Mordaunt (29 March 1663 – 4 January 1720) was an English Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1692 and 1720. Early life Mordaunt was born at Parsons Green, Fulham ...
(1663–1720), English lieutenant-general * Henry Mordaunt (Royal Navy officer) (died 1710), English politician and Royal Navy captain * David Mordaunt (born 1937), English former cricketer *
Elinor Mordaunt Evelyn May Clowes, known by the pseudonym Elinor Mordaunt (7 May 1872 – 25 June 1942), was an English author, writer and traveller born in Nottinghamshire, England. Her travels included Mauritius and Australia; she undertook a wide variety of ...
(1872–1942), English author and traveler * Gerald Mordaunt (1873–1959), English cricketer *
Harriet Mordaunt Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt (''née'' Moncreiffe; 7 February 1848 – 9 May 1906) was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and member of parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which the Pr ...
(1848–1906), wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, and alleged mistress of Edward VII *
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (15 November 1621 – 19 June 1697) was an English soldier, peer and courtier. Early life Styled Lord Mordaunt from 1628, he was the eldest son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough. He was educ ...
(1621–1697), English soldier, peer, and courtier * Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet (1867–1939), English cricketer * John Mordaunt (disambiguation), numerous persons *
Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (21 September 1538 – 16 June 1601) was an English peer and politician. Biography He was the son of John Mordaunt, 2nd Baron Mordaunt and Ela (née FitzLewis) Mordaunt. He became the third Baron Mordaunt in ...
(1538-1601), English peer and politician *Norman Mordaunt, co-founder in 1967 of British loudspeaker company Mordaunt-Short * Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1842) (1842–1923), English cricketer and clergyman *
Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1876) Osbert Cautley Mordaunt (26 May 1876 – 20 October 1949) played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1905 and 1910 and for various amateur teams in the years up to 1914. He was born at Flax Bourton, Somerset and died at Bells Yew Green, Ea ...
(1876–1949), English cricketer *
Penny Mordaunt Dame Penelope Mary "Penny" Mordaunt (; born 4 March 1973) is a British former Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who served as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from 2022 until 2024. She was the Memb ...
(born 1973), British politician * Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), British officer and poet


Given name

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Mordaunt Bisset Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset (1825 – 7 July 1884), of Bagborough, Somerset, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and a famous west-country Master of Staghounds. Origins He was the only son of the Venerable Maurice Fenwick Bisset (1797 ...
(1825–c. 1884), British politician and Member of Parliament * Mordaunt Cracherode (died 1773 or possibly 1768), British Army officer * J. Mordaunt Crook (born 1937), English architectural historian * Mordaunt Doll (1888–1966), English cricketer *
Mordaunt Hall Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for ''The New York Times'', working from October 1924 to September 1934.Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740 – 24 September 1815) was son of Sir Roger Martin, 3rd Baronet and Sophia Mordaunt. He inherited his baronetcy from his father, who was the third Martin Baronets#Martin baronets, of Long Melford (1667), ...
(c. 1740–1815), English country gentleman *
Mordaunt Shairp Alexander Mordaunt Shairp (13 March 1887 – 18 January 1939) was an English dramatist and screenwriter born in Totnes. In publications, he styled himself either as A. Mordaunt Shairp or Mordaunt Shairp. Educated at St Paul's School, London ...
(1887–1939), English dramatist and screenwriter


Fictional characters

*Mordaunt, a main villain of the 1845 novel ''
Twenty Years After ''Twenty Years After'' () is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of '' The d'Artagnan Romances'', it is a sequel to ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 novel '' The Vicomte de ...
'' by Alexandre Dumas *Mordaunt, the central male character in the 1800 novel ''Mordaunt, Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners in Various Countries; including the memoirs of a French Lady of Quality'' by
John Moore (Scottish physician) John Moore FRSE (1729–1802) was a Scottish physician and travel author. He also edited the works of Tobias Smollett. Life He was born on 10 October 1729 in Stirling, the son of Rev Charles Moore of Rowallan (d,1735) and his wife, Marion Ande ...
*Mordaunt Heatherstone, son of General John Berthier Heatherstone in the 1888 novel '' The Mystery of Cloomber'' by Arthur Conan Doyle *Mordaunt Reeves, a character in '' The Viaduct Murder'' by Ronald Knox, 1925. *Mordaunt Mertoun, one of the protagonists in Scott's novel ''The Pirate''.


See also

* DeMordaunt {{given name, type=both English-language masculine given names Masculine given names