Richard Mant

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Richard Mant (February 12, 1776 - 1848) was an English churchman and writer.

He was born at Southampton and educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Oxford.

He was elected fellow of Oriel in 1798, and afterwards took orders, holding a curacy at Southampton in 1802. In 1808 he published The Simpliciad, this satirical poem was addressed in verse to William Wordsworth, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with notes relating to his parodies and allusions to the originals. He was appointed to the vicarage of Coggeshall, Essex in (1810) and in 1811 he became Bampton Lecturer. In 1816 was made rector of St Botolph's, and in 1820 became Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenoragh, (Ireland). In 1823 he was moved to the diocese of Down and Connor, to which the diocese of Dromore was added in 1842.

In collaboration with the Reverend George D'Oyly, Mant wrote a commentary on the whole Bible. Other works by him include the Psalms in an English Metrical Version (1842) and a History of the Church of Ireland (1839-1841; 2 vols.). His Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary (1837) was one of the earliest collections of translated Latin hymnody in English.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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• The Simpliciad: 1808 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834) Publisher: Woodstock Books Inc. ISBN 1-85477-076-4

Religious titles
Preceded by Lord Robert Loftus	Bishop of Killaloe 1820-1823	Succeeded by Alexander Arbuthnot