Modern English biography

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_. 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.