MANCHESTER George Victor Drogo Montagu, 8 Duke of Manchester (eldest child of the preceding). b. Cavendish sq. London 17 June 1853; styled lord Kimbolton 1853–5 and viscount Mandeville 1855–90; captain Armagh militia 30 April 1877 to May 1889; M.P. Huntingdonshire 1877–80; contested Huntingdonshire, April 1880; bankrupt 2 April 1889, bankruptcy annulled 8 Aug. 1889, paid 20s. in the pound 1890–91; succeeded as 8 duke 21 March 1890. d. Tanderagee castle, Armagh 18 Aug. 1892.
MANDERS, Mr. Proprietor of a menagerie, employing 60 people 1840–71; toured in America; lived in his travelling caravan for 30 years; was in treaty for selling his animals to the French government 1871; his wife was a well-known Lion queen, she carried on the menagerie after her husband’s death. He d. in his caravan near Dumfries, Ayrshire 18 Nov. 1871. The Era 26 Nov. 1871 p. 12.
MANDERS, Louisa (dau. of Mr. Powell). b. 1801; (m. 1820 Thomas Manders 1797–1859); made her first appearance at theatre royal, Exeter 1825; fell from the flies at Sadler’s Wells and was much injured 1834; at the Strand, Adelphi and Drury Lane played old women, and was good as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet; received a sum of money through an appeal made in The Era 1879. d. 17 April 1880. bur. Woking cemet. 21 April. The Era 25 April 1880 p. 6.
MANDERS, Thomas. b. 22 Dec. 1797; engaged in one pound note department of the Bank of England 1814, one pound notes done away with and his office abolished 1821 when he was pensioned; went on the stage and toured through Midland counties; manager of theatre royal, Exeter 1825; (m. 1820 Louisa Powell actress 1801–1880); first appeared in London at City theatre, Milton st. as Justice Greedy; acted at the Strand and Olympic; was at the Queen’s theatre about 16 years; kept the marquis of Granby, 11 Middle row, Knightsbridge; kept the Sun tavern, Longacre 1838. d. 28 Oct. 1859. bur. Woking cemet. The Era 6 Nov. 1859 p. 15; Actors by daylight, i 241 (1838), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) 81.
MANDEVILLE, John Henry. Sec. to the commissary for prisoners of war in France 1801–2; sec. to the embassy at Vienna 1804–9, at Brussels 1815 and at Frankfort 1817; paid attaché at Paris 1824; sec. of embassy at Lisbon 1828 and at Constantinople 1831; minister plenipo. at Constantinople 1831–3 and at Buenos Ayres 1835–45 when he retired on a pension. d. 16 March 1861. F.O. List, July 1861 p. 157.
MANDRON HARVEY, Auguste. b. 1813; B.A.; French master St. Peter’s collegiate school, Eaton square, London; author of Le vieux chêne. Par l’ auteur de John Hardy le laquais, traduit par A. Mandron. London 1852. d. 41 Kellett road, Brixton, Surrey 16 Dec. 1879.
MANGIN, Edward (eld. son of Samuel Henry Mangin, lieut.-col. 14 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.