Modern English biography

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.