MANSON, James Bolivar. b. Scotland 1823; ed. Aberdeen, B.A.; tutor, then schoolmaster at Bannockburn; editor of Stirling Observer; editor of Northern Daily express; on editorial staff of Edinburgh daily review 1862 to death; author of The Bible in school, a vindication of the Scottish system of education 1852; Contemporary Scottish art, pen and ink pictures from the Exhibition 1865. died suddenly while writing a leading article at 16 Keir street, Edinburgh 2 Nov. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii 18 (1869); The Daily Rev. Edinb. 3 Nov. 1868 p. 2.
MANSON, William. Joined James Stirling Christie and George Henry Christie, auctioneers of pictures and works of art at 8 King st. St. James’, London 1831; Edward Manson a brother was afterward admitted a partner and d. 1884. d. 5 Portugal st. Grosvenor sq. London 19 June 1852. D. Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) 67–8; All the year round 8 May 1875 pp. 125–32.
Note.—This business was established by James Christie in 1761 (first catalogue dated 5 Dec. 1766), who dying in 1803 was succeeded by his son James Christie, who dying 1831 left it to his two sons mentioned above. Mr. Thomas Hoade Woods was admitted a partner in 1859. The business was removed from Pall Mall to King st. in 1824. In Christie’s sale catalogue may be traced the history of fine art taste in England for more than a century.
MANT, Walter Bishop (eld. son of Richard Mant 1776–1848, bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore). b. Buriton, Hampshire 25 June 1807; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; archdeacon of Connor 1831; R. of Hillsborough, co. Down, and archdeacon of Down, Oct. 1834 to death; author of Horæ Apostolicæ 1839; The man of sorrows, five discourses. Oxford 1852; Memoirs of Richard Mant. Dublin 1857; Christophoros and other poems 1861; Bible quartetts [1862] 3 numbers; Scientific quartetts [1862–3] 6 numbers. d. archdeaconry, Hillsborough 6 April 1869.
MANTELL, Edward Reginald. b. 1799; ed. Em. coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; C. of Dartford, Kent 1823–6; C. of Bexley, Kent 1826–8; C. of Ticehurst, Sussex 1828–31; V. of Louth and Tetney, Lincs. 1831–59; preb. of Louth in Lincoln cath. 1845 to death; R. of Gretford with Wilsthorpe, Lincs. 1859 to death; dean of the peculiar of Stamford 1863 to death; R.D. of Ness 1864–76. d. Parkbury, St. Albans 29 May 1884. The law of marriage, correspondence between Mr. Allison and E. R. Mantell on marriage with a deceased wife’s sister (1850).
MANTELL, Gideon Algernon (son of a shoemaker). b. parish of St. John-sub-Castro, Lewes 3 Feb. 1790; articled to James Moore, surgeon, Lewes, partner with him; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; practised at Lewes 1835–9, at Clapham Common 1839–45 and in London 1845 to death; sold his fine collection of fossils to British Museum for £5000, 1838; opened many tumuli about Lewes; lectured frequently at Royal Institution; F.L.S. 1813; F.G.S. 1818, Wollaston medallist 1835, one of its secretaries 1841–2, vice pres. 1848–9; F.R.S. 24 Nov. 1825, royal medallist 1849; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Aug. 1852; author of The fossils of the South Downs 1822; The wonders of geology 2 vols. 1838, 7 ed. 1849; The medals of creation 2 vols. 1844; On the remains of man 1850. d. 19 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 10 Nov. 1852. bur. St. Michael’s church, Lewes, where is memorial tablet. A reminiscence of G. A. Mantell (1853), memoir pp. 18–26; G.M. xxxviii 644–47 (1852), xxxix 2 (1853); Medical Circular, i 89, 443 (1852), portrait; Proc. of Linnean society, ii 235–37 (1855); Quarterly journal of geological society, ix 22–25 (1853); M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 158–60; Physic and physicians, ii 306–8 (1839).
MANTELL, Sir John Iles (eld. son of George Mantell, M.D. of Faringdon, Berkshire). b. Faringdon 1 Dec. 1813; barrister M.T. 18 June 1847; queen’s advocate of the Gambia 24 Aug. 1841, chief justice and judge of the court of vice admiralty of the Gambia 20 Oct. 1847 to 1866; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; stipendiary magistrate for borough of Salford and Manchester petty sessional division of county 7 Sep. 1869 to Dec. 1885. d. Biarritz 12 July 1893.
MANTELL, Joshua (younger brother of G. A. Mantell 1790–1852). b. 1795; L.S.A. 1828; surgeon at Newick, Sussex; founded the Newick horticultural society 1832; principal editor of John Baxter’s The library of agricultural and horticultural knowledge. 2 ed. Lewes 1842, 4 ed. 1846, and of The farmer’s annual; author of Floriculture, comprising management of stove, greenhouse and herbaceous plants 1832; thrown from his horse and received an injury to his brain, removed to Dr. Newington’s asylum at Ticehurst 1835 where he d. May 1865. G.M. June 1865 p. 800.
MANTLE, Thomas Allen. b. Kates hill near Dudley 31 Jany. 1840; came to London about 1852; a brass finisher by trade; professional cricketer at Westminster school from 3 May 1862 to death; played in the Middlesex eleven, scored 1010 runs in 1866; first played at Lords 10 June 1867 in England v. Middlesex; a good all-round player; resided at the Lodge, Vincent sq. Westminster. d. 29 April 1884.
MANVERS, Charles, stage name of Charles Ward Marshall. b. Oxford; a singer in Christ Church cath.; studied in Italy; a leading tenor in U.S. of America; sang in London at the Ancient concerts, the Philharmonic soc. and the Sacred harmonic soc.; leading tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane during Bunn’s management 1833; retired owing to an attack of chronic asthma. d. 22 Feb. 1874. The Athenæum 28 Feb. 1874 p. 301.