James Mangles (MP)

James Mangles (July 27, 1768 – September 25, 1838) was an English merchant and politician.

Life

The son of Robert Mangles, a ship's chandler in Wapping, he went into his father's business, with his brother John.[1]

Mangles was Member of Parliament for Guildford, from 1831 to 1837.[1] During the 1830s he bought Down Place, Surrey from Edward Turnour, 3rd Earl Winterton.[2]

Family

Mangles married Mary Hughes of Guildford. There were six sons and six daughters of the marriage, with ten surviving to adulthood.[3]

John Mangles (1760–1837), brother of James Mangles (1762–1838), was father of James Mangles R.N.[11]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Mangles, James (1762-1838), of Woodbridge, nr. Guildford, Surr.
  2. 'Parishes: Compton', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H. E. Malden (London, 1911), pp. 16–24. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp16-24 [accessed 12 June 2016].
  3. Pamela Statham-Drew (June 2003). James Stirling: admiral and founding governor of Western Australia. University of Western Australia Press. pp. 46–7.
  4. The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 1852. p. 105.
  5. The Register; and Magazine of Biography, A Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and other Genealogical and Personal Occurrences. Nichols & Sons. 1869. p. 333.
  6. Edward Walford (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland ... R. Hardwicke. p. 651.
  7. "Mangles, Pilgrim (MNGS812P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  8. Pamela Statham (19 November 1990). The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities. Cambridge University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-521-40832-5.
  9. Court magazine and monthly critic (1833). The Court magazine and belle assemblée [afterw.] and monthly critic and the Lady's magazine and museum. p. 339.
  10. "Preston, D'Arcy Harrington (PRSN863DH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  11. "Mangles collection, Surrey Archaeological Society". Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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