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Maunsell
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 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, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway * John Maunsell, Cleric, Judge as well as Secret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Maunsell
Guy Anson Maunsell (1 September 1884 – 20 June 1961) was the British civil engineer responsible for the design of the Maunsell Forts used by the United Kingdom for the defence of the Thames and Mersey estuaries during World War II. Early life Maunsell was born in 1884 in Srinagar, Kashmir in British India, one of three children of a military family. His father, Edward Henry Maunsell (1837–1913) was of Anglo-Irish ancestry, and was a captain in the 5th Dragoon Guards and 15th Hussars. His mother, Rosalie Harriet Anson (1852–1922), was born in Guernsey; the couple had married in Bombay Cathedral in 1878. He was related distantly to General Sir Frederick Richard Maunsell (1828–1916) of the Royal Bengal Engineers. Young Guy was sent to school in England at Eastbourne College between 1897 and 1903, and studied civil engineering at the Central Institution of the City & Guilds of London Institute, South Kensington. Although he graduated with first class honours in 1906, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 century, and was founded by John Burke. He and successors from the Burke family, and others since, have written in it on genealogy and heraldry relating to gentry families."The History of ''Burke's Landed Gentry''" Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 2005, Scotland, United Kingdom, ww.burkespeerage.com It has evolved alongside '' Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage''. The two works are regarded as complementing each other. Since the early 20th century, the work includes families that historically possessed landed property. Rationale In the 18th and 19th centuries, the names and families of those with titles (specifically peers and baronets, less often including those with the non-hereditary title of knight) were often listed in books or manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Act 1921, 1923 Grouping and then the post of CME of the Southern Railway (UK), Southern Railway in England until 1937. He had previously worked his way up through positions in other railways in Ireland, England and India. Biography He was born on 26 May 1868 at Raheny, County Dublin, in Ireland, the seventh son of John Maunsell, a Justice of the Peace and a prominent solicitor in Dublin. He attended The Royal School, Armagh from 1882 to 1886. He commenced studies at Trinity College, Dublin on 23 October 1886 for a law degree; however by this stage he had shown a keen interest in engineering. He concurrently began an apprenticeship at the Inchicore railway works, Inchicore works of the Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) under Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 under Baron Gilbert de Lacy in Palestine. Robert led a small force of Welsh and Aquitanians by night to put to rout a much larger force of Turks under Sultan Nur ad-Din Zangi, at his camp outside Damascus during the reign of King Henry II. His father, Walter, a deacon, was Napkin Bearer to the King. John Maunsell is first heard of when he was sent from Scotland as orator from Alexander, King of Scotland in 1215 to the court of John. As the son of a deacon under orders, his birth status periodically came into question eventually resulting in a letter from Pope Innocent IV ratified by Pope Alexander IV in 1259 stating "Approbation, addressed to John Mansel, Chancellor of London, the King's Clerk, of the dispensation given to him, at the Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1835 and was appointed to Te Waimate mission, and he was sent to established the Manukau mission station that same year; where he operated a school. From 1849 to 1865 he worked at Te Kohanga Mission near Port Waikato, including during the Invasion of the Waikato, which was the response of the colonial government to the Kingitanga Movement. After 1844 the Rev. Robert Maunsell worked with William Williams on the revision of the translation of the Bible into the Māori language. William Williams concentrated on the revision of the New Testament; Maunsell worked on the revision of the Old Testament, portions of which were published in 1840 with the full translation completed in 1857. In 1845 the Book o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 son of Sir Edward Mansel of Penrice Castle, Penrice and Margam (died 1585), although he later established himself among the gentry of Norfolk. His early naval career is not recorded, but he served in the 1596 Capture of Cádiz, raid on Cádiz under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, commanding English ship Vanguard (1586), ''Vanguard'', and was knighted for his part in it. He subsequently took part in Essex's Islands Voyage to the Azores (1597), then held commands off the Ireland, Irish coast during Essex in Ireland, Essex's campaign in Ireland. In October 1602 he was fitted out with a fleet and with the Dutch helped defeat six Spanish galleys under Federico Spinola at the Battle of the Narrow Seas. As a resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 1786.Marshall 1829, p. 36. He had one brother in the Church of Ireland, Church, and another in the British Army, Army.Marshall 1829, p. 39. He entered the Royal Navy on board the HMS Mermaid (1784), ''Mermaid'', 32 guns, Captain Robert Dudley Oliver, in 1799; and subsequently served under Captains Richard Hussey Moubray and George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1784), George Elliot, in the HMS Maidstone (1795), ''Maidstone'', 32 guns, on the Mediterranean Station, Mediterranean station. On 11 July 1804, he received a very severe wound in the hip, while assisting at the Action of 11 July 1804 (Bay of Hiérès), destruction of about a dozen French settees, at La Vandour, near Toulon, by the boats of the ''Maidstone'' and her consorts, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
