dragoons, _d._ 1798). _b._ Dublin 15 July 1772; ed. at Balliol
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; preb. of Dysart, Killaloe
cath. 2 March 1798; preb. of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 15 Jany.
1800 to 1 Dec. 1803; preb. of Rath in Killaloe cath. 1 Dec. 1803
to death; author of The deserted city 1805. By E. M., a poem on
Bath in summer; Oddities and outlines. By E. M. 2 vols. 1806;
George the third, a novel 3 vols. 1807; Essays on the sources of
the pleasures received from literary compositions 1809, anon., 2
ed. 1813; Piozziana, or recollections of the late Mrs. Piozzi.
By A Friend 1833. _d._ 10 Johnstone st. Bath 17 Oct. 1852.
_Peach’s Houses in Bath_, _i_ 146–7 (1883), _ii_ 8, 37–8, 72
(1884).
MANGLES, CHARLES EDWARD (son of James Mangles, M.P. Guildford
1832–7). _b._ 1798; captain H.E.I.C. naval service; M.P. Newport
1857–9; contested Southampton 6 Dec. 1862; chairman of London
and south-western railway 1859–72; resided at Poyle park,
Tongham, Farnham, Surrey. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 28 Oct. 1873.
MANGLES, JAMES. _b._ 1786; entered navy March 1800; commander
of the Racoon sloop 13 June 1815; captain on h.p. 8 Feb. 1853;
travelled in Europe, Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor 1817–18;
F.R.S. 20 June 1825; an original fellow and member of council
of Royal Geographical Soc. 1830; author of The floral calendar
1839; Papers and despatches relating to the Arctic searching
expeditions of 1850–1–2. 1852; Thames estuary, guide to the
navigation of the Thames mouth 1853; author with C. L. Irby of
Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor in 1817–18. 1823.
_d._ Fairfield, Topsham road, Exeter 18 Nov. 1867.
MANGLES, ROSS DONELLY (younger son of James Mangles of
Woodbridge, Surrey, M.P. Guildford). _b._ 1801; ed. at Eton and
Haileybury coll.; writer in service of H.E.I.C. Bengal, April
1819; spent three years in Europe 1828–31; junior sec. to Sudder
board of revenue in Bengal presidency; director of H.E.I.C. 14
April 1847 and chairman 1857–8; M.P. Guildford 1841–58; member
of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1866; author of A brief
vindication of the India company’s government of Bengal 1830;
Christian reasons of a member of the Church of England for being
a reformer 1840. _d._ 23 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 16 Aug.
1877. _Annual register_ (1877) 156; _Times 21 Aug. 1877 p._ 4.
MANGOLD, CARL GEORG (son of Ludwig Mangold, violinist). _b._
Darmstadt 27 Sep. 1812; a pupil of Johann N. Hummel; came to
London about 1837; pianist; a teacher of the piano; taught
the princess Mary of Cambridge, duchess of Teck; professor
at Guildhall school of music to 1887; composer of Marche
triumphale, composed for the christening of the Prince of Wales
1842; Les etoiles, morceaux caractéristiques 1855; Six rêveries
for the pianoforte 1855; Six romances sans paroles 1856; Wild
flowers, three impromptus 1862; Three melodies 1863; Night hymn
at sea 1875; author of Harmony 1886; Counterpoint 1886; History
of harmony and counterpoint 1886. _d._ 4 Queen’s sq. Bloomsbury,
London 1 Nov. 1887.
MANING, FREDERICK EDWARD (son of Frederick Maning of Johnville,
co. Dublin). _b._ 5 July 1812; taken to Van Diemen’s Land
1824; went to New Zealand 1841, won the hearts of the natives
who installed him as a Pakeha Maori or naturalised stranger;
acquired land of the Ngapuhi tribe at Hokianga, settled at Onaki
and married a Maori; a judge of the Native lands court 15 Nov.
1865, resigned 1881; author of Old New Zealand, being incidents
of native customs, by a Pakeha Maori 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The
history of the war in the North with Heki in 1845, both books
were republished in 1876. _d._ London 25 July 1883. _bur._ New
Zealand, his bust is over door of institute library at Auckland.
_G. W. Rusden’s History of New Zealand_, _i_ 22, _ii_ 285, _iii_
515 (1883).
MANISTY, SIR HENRY (2 son of James Manisty V. of Edlingham,
Northumberland). _b._ Edlingham 13 Dec. 1808; ed. at Durham
cathedral gr. sch.; member of firm of Meggison, Pringle and
Manisty, solicitors, London 1830–42; barrister G.I. 23 April
1845, bencher 22 July 1857 to death, treasurer 1861; went
northern circuit; Q.C. 7 July 1857; judge of high court of
justice, queen’s bench division 31 Oct. 1876 to death; knighted
at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1876; author of A letter to sir
F. Pollock on the subject of local courts 1843; seized with
paralysis in court 24 Jany. 1890. _d._ 24A Bryanston sq. London
31 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 Feb. _Vanity Fair_,
_xxxvi_ 4–5 (1886) _and 30 Nov. 1889_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_
428 (1876) _portrait and 8 Feb. 1890 p._ 163, _portrait_.
MANKS, RICHARD. _b._ in parish of Solihull, Warwickshire 3
May 1818; known as the Warwickshire antelope and the Eastern
Warwickshire star; ran from Hagley Tap house to Birmingham 9¾
miles with 3 steep hills; ran 3 miles in 17 minutes and won; ran
18½ miles up and down hill within 2 hours on the Coventry road
and won; against Mountjoy picked up 300 stones placed 1 yard
apart 51 miles 540 yards for £30 a side; wheeled a barrow with
5 cwt. 588 yards for £50 a side; ran Jackson the American deer
10 miles £100 a side and beat him: a publican 1847; walked 1000
miles in 1000 hours, starting each time as the clock struck at
the Barrack tavern, Sheffield, being watched by three troops of
the 1 royal dragoons 17 June to 29 July 1850; trained Burton
to fight Tass Parker 19 May 1851; said to have walked 1000
quarter miles in 1000 quarter hours, completing task on 4 July
1851, and 1000 miles in 1000 half hours at the Kennington Oval
10 to 31 Oct. 1851. _Illust. Sporting News 7 July_ (1862) 100,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_ 96 (1850) _portrait_, _xix_ 573, 574
(1851), _portrait_.
MANN, FREDERICK WILLIAM (youngest son of general Gother Mann).
_b._ 1782; ensign royal staff corps 9 Feb. 1804, lieut.-col.
31 Dec. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 July 1834; served at captures
of Genoa and Malta; was under lord Cathcart in Germany; with
sir John Moore in Sweden, Portugal and Spain; under sir John
Doyle aided in constructing military roads in Guernsey; in the
Peninsula 1813–14, at the passage of Bidassoa, at Nivelle and
Toulouse; illustrated Giles Witherne by J. P. Wilson 1863. _d._
De Beavoir, Guernsey 28 July 1871. _I.L.N. 12 Aug. 1871 p._ 139.
MANN, GERARD (son of rev. Horace Mann, R. of Mawgan-in-Meneage,
Cornwall 1816–46). _b._ Mawgan-in-Meneage rectory 20 March
1821; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845; rowed No. 3 in the
Cambridge boat against Oxford and Leander at Thames regatta
1844; rowed bow oar in Cambridge boat which beat Oxford in the
first race over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845 and
which won the grand challenge cup against Oxford at Henley 1845;
he and F. M. Arnold of Caius coll. were the crack pair-oar of
their time and won the silver goblets at Henley with great ease
1845; C. of Alderbury, Wilts. 1847–51; R. of Mawgan, Cornwall
1851 to death. _d._ Mawgan 21 Oct. 1855.
MANN, GOTHER FREDERICK. _b._ 1817; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836,
col. 10 Nov. 1868 to 13 Aug. 1874; M.G. 13 Aug. 1874; C.B. 1
March 1861. _d._ The cottage, Church road, Upper Norwood, Surrey
2 March 1881.
MANN, HENRY. _b._ 1806; an attentive astronomer who had a
valuable instrument; F.R.A.S. 12 May 1871; an amateur musician;
composer of The Heaton galop. Manchester 1871; resided Spern
Bank near Checkheaton. _d._ 15 Phillimore gardens, Kennington 20
Aug. 1879. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. Soc. xl_ 204 (1880).
MANN, ROBERT JAMES (son of James Mann of Norwich). _b._ Norwich
1817; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1878;
surgeon at Norwich, afterwards at Buxton; M.D. St. Andrews 1854;
resided in Natal 1857–66; superintendent of education for Natal
1859–66, established a system of primary education; emigration
agent for Natal in London 1866 to death; pres. of Meteorological
Soc. 3 years; author of The book of health 1850; The philosophy
of reproduction 1855; A guide to the knowledge of life 1856;
The colony of Natal 1860–62; The emigrant’s guide to Natal
1868, 2 ed. 1873 and 15 other books. _d._ 5 Kingsdown villas,
Bolingbroke grove, Wandsworth, London 8 Aug. 1886. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet.
MANN, WILLIAM (3 son of major general Cornelius Mann). _b._
Lewisham, Kent 25 Oct. 1817; went to Gibraltar 1830; second
assistant at royal observatory, Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 1839,
first assistant Dec. 1847 to 1870, erected a new transit-circle
there 1855; communicated his observations of the great comet of
Dec. 1844 and of the transit of Mercury on 4 Nov. 1868 to the
Royal Astronomical Soc.; F.R.A.S. 10 March 1871; granted civil
list pension of £50, 18 June 1873, the value for three years of
this pension was paid to his widow. _d._ Claremont near Cape
Town 30 April 1873. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc.
xxxiv_ 144–8 (1874).
MANNERS, CHARLES HENRY SOMERSET (2 son of Charles Manners, 4
duke of Rutland 1754–87). _b._ 24 Oct. 1780; cornet 10 dragoons
7 Feb. 1798; lieut.-col. 3 dragoons 2 July 1812 to 2 June 1825;
M.P. Cambs. 1802–30; M.P. North Leicester 1835–52; C.B. 4 June
1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838; col. 3 dragoons 8 Nov. 1839 to
death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ E3 The Albany, London 25 May
1855.
MANNERS, GEORGE JOHN (3 son of 5 duke of Rutland 1778–1857).
_b._ London 22 June 1820; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1841; cornet royal horse guards 20 Oct. 1840, major 5 March
1861, placed on h.p. 5 June 1866; brevet colonel 5 March 1866;
M.P. Cambridgeshire 1847–57 and 1863 to death; senior steward
of the Jockey club and chairman of committee on condition of
the turf in 1870. _d._ Cheveley park, Newmarket 8 Sep. 1874.
_Baily’s mag. xxii_ 125 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 260,
280 (1874), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 307 (1875); _Graphic_, _x_ 298,
309 (1874), _portrait_.
MANNERS, RUSSELL HENRY (only child of Russell Manners, M.P.)
_b._ London 31 Jany. 1800; ed. at royal naval college; entered
navy 6 March 1816; captain 4 March 1829; retired admiral 12 Sep.
1865; F.R.A.S. 1836, hon. sec. Feb. 1848 to 1858, foreign sec.
1858, president 1868. _d._ 8 Henrietta st. Cavendish square,
London 9 May 1870. _Monthly notices of the R.A.S. xxxi_ 97–99
(1871).
MANNING, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Manning of Billiter sq. London,
West India merchant). _b._ 1796; lived many years at Leamington,
where he erected protestant churches and contributed to all
charitable institutions; published A list of the various
editions of the Boscobel tracts, Leamington 1861; A series of
views illustrative of the Boscobel tracts 1861; A series of
views to illustrate C. Cotton’s The second part of the complete
angler 1866. _d._ Byron lodge, Leamington 15 Jany. 1880. _The
Warwickshire Times 24 Jany. 1880 p._ 5.
MANNING, HENRY EDWARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Copped
hall, Totteridge, Herts. 15 July 1808; ed. at Harrow 1822–7
and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of Merton
coll. 27 April 1832; C. of Wool Lavington, Sussex, Dec. 1832, R.
of Wool Lavington 10 June 1833; R. of Graffham, Sussex 16 Sep.
1833, rebuilt both his churches; second rural dean of Midhurst
1837; archdeacon of Chichester 30 Dec. 1840, resigned 22 Nov.
1850; select preacher at Oxford 1842; a leader of the high
church party; received into the Church of Rome at the Jesuits’
ch. in Farm st. mews by Father Brownbill 6 April 1851; ordained
priest by Cardinal Wiseman 14 June 1851; studied at Rome 1851–4;
received degree of D.D. from Pius IX. 1854; provost of the
chapter of Westminster 1857; superior of the Congregation of the
Oblates of St. Charles at 10 Westmoreland place, Bayswater 31
May 1857 to 1865; domestic prelate to the Pope and protonotary
apostolic with title of Monsignore 1860; archbishop of
Westminster 30 April 1865 to death, consecrated at St. Mary’s,
Moorfields 8 June and enthroned there 6 Nov.; established
the Westminster diocesan education fund 1866; founded the
pro-cathedral church of our lady of victories, between 12 and 13
Newland terrace, Kensington 1867; founded a University college
at Wright’s lane, Kensington 1874, which was closed 1878;
founded the Diocesan seminary of St. Thomas, Cupola house, King
st. East, Hammersmith 1876; created cardinal-priest by Pius IX.
15 March 1875, enthroned in church of St. Gregory the Great on
the Cœlian hill, Rome 31 March 1875, received the cardinal’s
hat 31 Dec. 1877; founded the temperance society known as The
League of the Cross 1868; member of royal commissions on housing
of the working classes 1884–5 and on the elementary education
acts 1886–7; author of Sermons 4 vols. 1842–50; Sermons preached
before the university of Oxford 1844; Sermons on ecclesiastical
subjects 3 vols. 1863–73; Miscellanies 3 vols. 1877–88; The
grounds of faith, four lectures 1852, 6 ed. 1881, besides 100
other works; he also edited, supplied prefaces to, and was
connected with 60 other works. _d._ Carlisle place, Vauxhall
bridge road, London at 8 a.m. 14 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Mary’s
cemet. Kensal Green 22 Jany. _A. W. Hutton’s Cardinal Manning_
(1892), _portrait_; _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _iii_ 378,
381–95 (1877); _Century Mag. May 1883 pp._ 129–31, _portrait_;
_Strand Mag. ii_ 52–60 (1891), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 20 May
1865 p._ 309, _portrait_.
MANNING, JAMES (son of James Manning of Exeter, Unitarian
minister). _b._ Exeter 1781; barrister L.I. 23 June 1817;
went Western circuit, leader of it many years; recorder of
Sudbury 1835 to death; recorder of Oxford and Banbury, Nov.
1837 to death; serjeant-at-law 19 Feb. 1840; received patent
of precedence April 1845; queen’s ancient serjeant 1846, which
dignity revived at his own suggestion entitled him to a seat
in the house of lords; judge of Whitechapel county court,
March 1847, retired on pension of £700, Feb. 1863, was one of
the 5 judges appointed Aug. 1856 to frame rules for conduct
of the practice and also scales of costs; author of A digest
of the nisi prius reports 1820; The practice of the Court of
Exchequer, revenue branch 1827, and other books; author with
Archer Ryland of Reports of cases in the court of King’s bench
1827–1830. 5 vols. 1828–37; author with T. C. Granger of Cases
argued and determined in the court of Common Pleas 1840–1845. 7
vols. 1841–6; author with T. C. Granger and J. Scott of Common
Bench reports 1845–1849. 8 vols. 1846–51; _m._ (2) 3 Dec. 1857
Charlotte dau. of Isaac Solly of Layton, Essex, and widow of
Wm. Speir, M.D. of Calcutta, she was author of Life in ancient
India 1856 and Ancient and mediæval India 2 vols. 1869. _d._ 44
Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 29 Aug. 1866.
MANNING, JOHN. _b._ Aldersgate st. London 1825; appeared
at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. under Charles James as a
tragedian; acted at Newcastle-under-Lyne; a parliamentary
agent in London; appeared at Theatre royal and Liver theatre,
Liverpool; was at the Marylebone, London, under E. T. Smith
1852; acted at the Grecian Saloon in The two Gregories 1855; a
well known low comedian at The Grecian. _d._ 18 March 1890. _The
Players 6 July 1861 p._ 1, _portrait_.
MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Manning of London, sculptor, _d._
1847). Began to practise modelling 1829; received from Society
of Arts gold medal for a model of a statue of Prometheus,
executed this statue in marble and exhibited it at the R.A.
in 1845, it was engraved by B. Holl in the ‘Art Union’ for
1846; sculptor at 3 Union place, New road, London 1847–59, at
66 Marylebone road 1859–65; exhibited sculptures at the R.A.
1845–58. _d._ 1865.
MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Mr. Manning, mayor of Leicester). _b._
Leicester 1822; studied at Baptist college at Bristol 1840
and at Glasgow univ.; baptist minister at Sheppard’s Barton,
Frome, Somerset 1846–61; edited the Baptist Mag. some years;
general book editor of Religious tract society 1863, one of the
secretaries 1876 to death; LL.D. Chicago; author of Infidelity
tested by fact, a series of papers reprinted from The Church
1850; edited Selections from the prose writings of John Milton
1862; projected the Religious tract society’s series of
illustrated books of travel 1870, and wrote several of them.
_d._ 35 Ladbroke grove, London 13 Sep. 1881. _S. A. Swaine’s
Faithful baptist men of Bristol college_ (1884) 327.
MANNING, WILLIAM OKE (son of Wm. Oke Manning of Lloyd’s, London,
insurance broker). _b._ 1809; ed. at Bristol; entered his
father’s counting-house; author of Commentaries on the law of
nations 1839, new ed. 1875, being the first English treatise
on the subject; Remarks upon religious tests at the English
universities 1846, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle. _d._
8 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 15 Nov. 1878.
_Athenæum 30 Nov. 1878 p._ 689.
MANNING, WILLIAM THOMAS. Member of firm of Hanslip and Manning,
solicitors 20 Thavies inn, Holborn, London 1844; member of
firm of Hanslip, Manning and Conworth, parliamentary agents 12
Hatton Garden 1850–53; coroner of the Queen’s household and of
the Verge, May 1853 to death. _d._ The Old Farm, New park road,
Clapham park, Brixton 10 Jany. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxiv_ 214,
252 (1888).
MANNINGHAM-BULLER, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (2 son of sir Francis
Buller-Yarde-Buller, 2 baronet 1767–1833). _b._ Churston
Ferrers, Devon 19 July 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1825; M.P. for North Staffs. 1837–41, contested North
Staffs. July 1847, M.P. North Staffs. 1865–74; M.P. for Stafford
1841–7; sheriff of Staffs. 1853; took surname of Manningham
before that of Buller by r.l. 4 Jany. 1866; created baronet 20
Jany. 1866. _d._ Dilhorn hall, Cheadle, Staffs. 22 Sep. 1882.
MANSELL, ARTHUR LUKIS (2 son of sir Thomas Mansell 1777–1858).
_b._ 1815; entered navy 8 Sep. 1831; captain 1 Jany. 1865,
retired 7 March 1866; retired V.A. 14 May 1888. _d._ 28 Feb.
1890.
MANSEL, CHARLES GRENVILLE. _b._ 1807; a writer in H.E.I. Co.’s
service 30 April 1826; deputy accountant general in Calcutta
1841; member of board of administration for the affairs of the
Punjab 1849–50; resident at Nagpur, Nov. 1850, retired on the
annuity fund 1855; author of Report on the settlement of the
district of Agra 1842. _d._ 7 Mills terrace, West Brighton 19
Nov. 1886.
MANSEL, HENRY LONGUEVILLE (eld. son of Henry Longueville Mansel
1783–1835, R. of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire). _b._ Cosgrove
rectory 6 Oct. 1820; entered Merchant Taylors’ school 29 Sep.
1830; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 11 June 1839, took a
double first 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1852, D.D. 1867;
took private pupils 1843–55; fellow of his college 1839–55
and 1864–7, hon. fellow 1868 to death, tutor 1850–64; reader
in moral and metaphysical theology at Magd. coll. Oxf. 1855;
professor fellow of St. John’s coll. 8 April 1864, and the first
honorary fellow Oct. 1868; Bampton lecturer 1858; Waynflete
professor of philosophy 1859; select preacher at Oxf. 1860–2
and 1869–71; examining chaplain to bishop of Peterborough
1864–8; regius professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxf. and
canon of Ch. Ch. 5 Jany. 1867 to Oct. 1868; dean of St. Paul’s
21 Oct. 1868 to death; author of The demons of the wind and
other poems 1838; Scenes from an unfinished drama entitled
Phrontisterion, or Oxford in the nineteenth century 1850, 4 ed.
1852; Prolegomena logica, an inquiry into the psychological
character of logical processes 1851; The limits of religious
thought, eight Bampton lectures 1858, 5 ed. 1867. _d._ in his
sleep at Cosgrove hall, the residence of his son-in-law 31 July
1871, memorial window in north chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral
unveiled 25 Jany. 1879. _J. W. Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891)
321–66, _portrait_; _Our bishops and deans. By Rev. F. Arnold_,
_ii_ 273–75 (1875); _Church of England photographic portrait
gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 39; _I.L.N. lix_ 127, 128, 311
(1871), _portrait_; _Quarterly Review_, _clix_ 1–39 (1885).
MANSEL, JOHN. _b._ 1777; ensign 53 foot March 1795, lieut.
colonel 12 Feb. 1818 to 9 Aug. 1827; C.B. 4 June 1815; sold out
of the army 1855. _d._ Smeadmore, Dorset 29 Jany. 1863.
MANSEL, ROBERT CHRISTOPHER (youngest son of sir Wm. Mansel, 7
bart. 1739–1804). _bapt._ 12 Feb. 1789; ensign 10 foot 29 Jany.
1807; captain 53 foot 8 July 1813; placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1817;
colonel of 68 foot 4 June 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H.
1832. _d._ Sandgate, Kent 8 April 1864.
MANSELL, SIR THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Mansell of Guernsey). _b._
Guernsey 9 Feb. 1777; entered navy 20 Jany. 1793; present at
battles of Cape St. Vincent and the Nile; commander of the Rose
sloop 1808–13 and of the Pelican 1813–4, captured 170 of the
enemy’s vessels; presented with order of the Sword by king of
Sweden 1812; captain 7 June 1814, retired 1 Oct. 1846; K.C.H. 1
Jany. 1837, knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 1 March
1837; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1849. _d._ Guernsey 22 April 1858.
MANSEL, THOMAS, _baptized_ 14 Oct. 1783; entered navy 1798;
served at battle of Copenhagen; captain 12 Feb. 1834; retired
admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Fareham, Kent 1 April 1869.
MANSFIELD, CHARLES BLACKFORD (son of John Mansfield, R. of
Rowner, Hampshire). _b._ Rowner 8 May 1819; ed. at Twyford and
Winchester; began residence at Clare hall, Camb. Oct. 1839, B.A.
1846, M.A. 1849; lived at a cost of a few pence a day and gave
his savings to the poor; studied at royal college of chemistry
1846–8; discovered and patented the extraction of benzol from
coal-tar 1848, which laid foundation of the aniline industry;
went to Paraguay 1852; lectured on the chemistry of the metals
at royal institution 1851–2; author of Benzol, its nature and
utility 1849; Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate 1856; the naptha on
which he was experimenting boiled over and so scalded him that
he _d._ Middlesex hospital, London 26 Feb. 1855. _Mansfield’s
Paraguay_ (1856), _memoir pp. xi–xvi_, _portrait_.
MANSFIELD, EDWARD. Sub-lieutenant royal naval reserve 1 Aug.
1890; aimed at promoting the use of balloons and parachutes for
both military and naval warfare; made a successful ascent in his
balloon Wanderer at Bombay 13 Nov. 1891 when he descended by his
parachute from an altitude of upwards of 11,000 feet; ascended
again from Victoria gardens, Bombay 10 Dec. 1891, the balloon
burst at a height of about 400 feet and he fell to the ground
mangled and dead. _Daily Graphic 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8, _31 Dec.
p._ 1, _portrait_.
MANSFIELD, HORATIO (5 son of John Mansfield, barrister). _b._
1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; fellow of
his coll. 1843–52; barrister I.T. 6 June 1853, went northern
circuit; a writer in the Morning Chronicle and Saturday Review
many years; deputy stip. magistrate for Liverpool 1872 to death.
_d._ Liverpool 13 Aug. 1887.
MANSFIELD, JAMES. _b._ 1775; a butcher at Debden, Essex;
exhibited himself at the Leicester square rooms, London about
1846 as the ‘Greatest man in the world.’ _d._ Debden, Essex 9
Nov. 1856. _G.M. i_ 786 (1856).
NOTE.--He measured 9 feet round, and weighed 33 stone of 14 lbs. When
sitting on his chair his abdomen covered his knees and hung down almost
to the ground; when he reclined it was necessary to pack his head to
prevent suffocation.
MANSFIELD, RALPH. _b._ Toxteth park, Liverpool 12 March 1799;
ordained minister of Wesleyan church 1820; stationed at Sydney,
N.S.W. Oct. 1820 to 1822, at Parramatta and Windsor during
1823, at Hobart Town 1823–5, at Sydney again 1825–8; edited
Sydney Gazette, first newspaper published in N.S.W. 1829–32;
leader writer for The Colonist, Sydney paper, several years;
contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald from 1841; secretary
of Sydney gas-light company 29 June 1836 to death. _d._ Sydney.
June 1880.
MANSFIELD, SAMUEL (son of John Mansfield of Diggeswell house,
Herts. _d._ 1841, and brother of first baron Sandhurst _d._
1876). _b._ 1815; entered Bengal civil service 1834; political
agent Rewa Kantha 1847; collector and magistrate Kandeish 1852;
revenue comr. Northern division 1859; senior member of council
Bombay 14 May 1867, retired upon the annuity fund 1872; a patron
of the Western India turf; C.S.I. 25 May 1866. _d._ 23 Hanover
sq. London 23 Dec. 1893.
MANSON, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Bombay artillery 1810, col.
16 April 1849 to death; M.G. 26 Dec. 1844; commanded Scinde
division of Bombay army 1 April 1848 to death; C.B. 26 Sep.
1831. _d._ Bombay 23 Feb. 1852.