Mansfield

Horace Rendall Mansfield (25 December 1863 – 9 February 1914) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Family

He was the second son of Cornelius Mansfield of Stratford, Essex. He married in 1885, Mary Annie Rose of Mansfield. They had three sons and one daughter.[1] She died in 1905. He then married in 1908, Sarah Elizabeth Winterton of Leicester.[2]

Career

He was a manufacturer of clay goods, mainly tiles. He was a Justice of the Peace in Derbyshire.[3] He was Liberal MP for Spalding Division of Lincolnshire from 1900 to 1910.[2] He was elected at the 1900 General Election, gaining the seat from the Liberal Unionist Party by a majority of just 57 votes. He was comfortably re-elected in 1906 before retiring in January 1910.[4]

References

  • Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench - 1901
  • British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918, F. W. S. Craig
  1. ↑ Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench
  2. 1 2 "Mansfield, Horace Rendall". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench
  4. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918


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