William Lort Mansel (2 April 1753 – 27 June 1820) was an English churchman and Cambridge fellow. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1798 to his death in 1820, and also

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from 1808 to 1820.

Life

He was born in Pembroke, the son of William Wogan Mansel and his wife Anne (née Lort), sister of

Michael Lort Michael Lort (1725–1790) was a Welsh clergyman, academic and antiquary. Life The descendant of a Pembrokeshire family living at Prickeston, he was eldest son of Roger Lort, major of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who married Anne, only child of E ...

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. He was educated at the

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under Edward Sparkes, and at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

(matriculated 1770, scholarship 1771, graduated

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1774,

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1777, D.D. 1798). Elected a fellow of Trinity in 1775, Mansel was ordained deacon in 1780 and priest in 1783. He became Vicar of

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1783–1790, Vicar of Chesterton in 1788 and Rector of Fowlmere in 1789. Mansel was known as a wit, writer of epigrams, and satirist of academic rivalries. His popularity led to his election as Public Orator of Cambridge, 1788–1798. Appointed Master of Trinity in 1798, Mansel served as University

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1799–1800. Appointed Bishop of Bristol in 1808 on the recommendation of his former pupil

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, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, he combined the bishopric with his mastership until his death in 1820. Mansel died in the Master's Lodge at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is interred in the College Chapel.

Family

Mansel married in 1779 Isabella Haggerston(e), daughter of John Haggerston, a Cambridge attorney: they had seven daughters and three sons, one of whom died young. On Mansel's death, his executors were

Edward Daniel Clarke Edward Daniel Clarke (5 June 17699 March 1822) was an English clergyman, naturalist, mineralogist, and traveller. Life Edward Daniel Clarke was born at Willingdon, Sussex, and educated first at Uckfield School"Anthony Saunders, D.D." in Ma ...

and James Devereux Hustler; his estate was left in will to his five unmarried daughters. The daughters included: *Isabella (died 1866 at age 76), married the Rev. Lort Mansel, a cousin. *Anne (died 1832), second daughter, married in 1819 to Edward Peacock, Fellow of Trinity and cleric. *Elizabeth, married 1823 James Devereux Hustler, Fellow of Trinity and cleric. *Fanny, married the Rev. Thomas Tayler of Whitlings. *Sophia Matilda Caroline, youngest daughter married 1823 the Rev. John Horsley Dakins.

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*http://www.barwickinelmethistoricalsociety.com/3310.html * 1753 births 1820 deaths Masters of Trinity College, Cambridge Bishops of Bristol 19th-century Church of England bishops Cambridge University Orators Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge People from Pembroke, Pembrokeshire People educated at the King's School, Gloucester Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People from Bottisham People from Fowlmere {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub