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.