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.