Maunsell is a surname, also encountered as 'Mansel', 'Maunsel', and 'Mansell', and in some cases a cognate of 'Mansfield'. Per MacLysaght, of Norman origin, and closely associated with County Limerick and County Tipperary since the seventeenth century, but on record there and County Wexford as early as the thirteenth century. It has been stated that, the name being Norman in origin, numerous families of the name existed in Northern France for some generations prior to the Norman Conquest. Several branches of the Irish family are extensively treated in

Burke's Landed Gentry ''Burke's Landed Gentry'' (originally titled ''Burke's Commoners'') is a reference work listing families in Great Britain and Ireland who have owned rural estates of some size. The work has been in existence from the first half of the 19th cen ...

of Ireland.A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison & Sons, 1912, pp. 466-470 Notable people with the surname include: * Guy Maunsell (1884-1961), British designer of the Maunsell Sea Fort defence system *

Richard Maunsell Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (pronounced "Mansell") (26 May 1868 – 7 March 1944) was an Irish Locomotive Engineer who held the post of chief mechanical engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913 until the Railways A ...

, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway *

John Maunsell Sir John Maunsell ( 1190/1195 – 1265), Provost of Beverley Minster, was a king's clerk and a judge. He served as chancellor to King Henry III and was England's first secretary of state. Life His grandfather, Robert Mansel, was a Templar u ...

, Cleric, Judge as well as Secretary of State and Chancellor to Henry III * John H. R. Maunsell (born 1955), British-American neuroscientist *

Robert Maunsell (missionary) Robert Maunsell (24 October 1810 – 19 April 1894) was a New Zealand missionary, linguist and translator. He was born in Milford, near Limerick, Ireland on 24 October 1810. Life Robert Maunsell joined the Church Missionary Society and ...

(1810–1894), English missionary, linguist and translator in New Zealand *

Robert Mansell Sir Robert Mansell (1573–1656) was an admiral of the English Royal Navy and a Member of Parliament (MP), mostly for Wales, Welsh constituencies. His name was sometimes given as Mansfield and Maunsell. Early life Mansel was a Welshman, the so ...

(1573–1656), admiral of the English Royal Navy and member of parliament *

Robert Maunsell (Royal Navy officer) Post-captain, Captain Robert Charles Maunsell (1785/6–1845) was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish officer in the British Royal Navy, rising to the rank of post-captain. He was born at Limerick, a son of Archdeacon William Maunsell, in 1785 or 1 ...

(1785/6–1845), Royal Navy officer, made post-captain in 1812

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