Mordaunt


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

Surname

  • Charles Mordaunt, several earls and baronets
  • Harry Mordaunt, English lieutenant-general
  • Henry Mordaunt , English politician and Royal Navy captain
  • David Mordaunt, English former cricketer
  • Elinor Mordaunt, English author and traveler
  • Gerald Mordaunt, English cricketer
  • Harriet Mordaunt, wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, and alleged mistress of Edward VII
  • Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, English soldier, peer, and courtier
  • Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet, English cricketer
  • John Mordaunt, numerous persons
  • Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt, English peer and politician
  • Norman Mordaunt, co-founder in 1967 of British loudspeaker company Mordaunt-Short
  • Osbert Mordaunt , English cricketer and clergyman
  • Osbert Mordaunt , English cricketer
  • Penny Mordaunt, British politician
  • Thomas Osbert Mordaunt, British officer and poet

    Given name

  • Mordaunt Bisset, British politician and Member of Parliament
  • Mordaunt Cracherode, British Army officer
  • J. Mordaunt Crook, English architectural historian
  • Mordaunt Doll, English cricketer
  • Mordaunt Hall, American film critic
  • Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet, English country gentleman
  • Mordaunt Shairp, English dramatist and screenwriter

    Fictional characters

  • Mordaunt, a main villain of the 1845 novel Twenty Years After 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
  • 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.