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.
MANSON, David. b. 1838; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1859, M.D. and C.M. 1862; in practise in London 1862–4; resident physician Strathpeffer spa 1864–71 and 1882 to death; in practise at Chesterfield 1871–82; author of On the sulphur waters of Strathpeffer in the Highlands of Rossshire 1877, 3 ed. 1879, 4 ed. abridged 1881; On the sulphur and chalybeate waters of Strathpeffer spa, 5 ed. 1884. d. Eaglestone, Strathpeffer 9 May 1884.
MANSON, George (son of Magnus Manson, merchant). b. Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1850; apprenticed as a wood engraver to W. and R. Chambers, publishers 1866–71; studied in the school of art, Edinb. 1871; exhibited a figure subject at R.A. London 1873; his paintings dealing with homely subjects are realistic transcripts from nature, notable for their colour, many of them are reproduced in his Memoir. d. Lympstone, Devon 27 Feb. 1876. bur. Gulliford church near Lympstone. G. Manson and his works, 27 plates. Edinb. (1880), memoir pp. 1–22, portrait.
MANSON, James. b. 1792; entered Bengal army 1807; ensign 8 Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1808, lieut. 2 June 1814; captain 72 N.I. 13 May 1825, major 11 July 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; lieut.-col. 28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to 1848; comr. with Bajee Rao, Bithoor 16 Sep. 1831 to 1851; lieut.-col. of 42 N.I. 1848–50, of 48 N.I. 1850–52, of 20 N.I. 1852–4, of 21 N.I. 1854–55, of 53 N.I. 1855–7, and of 44 N.I. 1857 to death; M.G. 15 May 1859. d. 14 Westbourne sq. London 15 July 1862.