Richard Mant

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

Life

He was born at Southampton, a grandson of the noted clerical antiquary Bingham, 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 Kilfenora, (Ireland). In 1823 he was translated to Down and Connor, and from 1842 he became the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore when the two dioceses united.

Works

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 Bampton Lectures An Appeal to the Gospel were published in 1812. 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 a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

References

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

External links

Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus	Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1820–1823	Succeeded by Alexander Arbuthnot
Preceded by Nathaniel Alexander	Bishop of Down and Connor 1823–1842	Succeeded by Became Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore
Preceded by First Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore	Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore 1842–1848	Succeeded by Robert Bent Knox

v t e Bishops of Down

Down and Connor	Robert Blyth Eugene Magennis James MacCawell John Merriman Hugh Allen Edward Edgeworth John Charden Roben Humpston John Todd James Dundas Robert Echlin Henry Leslie Jeremy Taylor Roger Boyle Thomas Hacket Samuel Foley Edward Walkington Edward Smyth Francis Hutchinson Carew Reynell John Ryder John Whitcombe Robert Downes Arthur Smyth James Traill William Dickson Nathaniel Alexander Richard Mant (became Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore)

Down, Connor and Dromore	Richard Mant Robert Knox William Reeves Thomas Welland John Crozier Charles D'Arcy Charles Grierson John MacNeice King Irwin

Down and Dromore	William Kerr Frederick Mitchell George Quin Robin Eames Gordon McMullan Harold Miller

v t e Bishops of Killaloe and Kilfenora

merged from Killaloe & Kilfenora Nicholas Synge Robert Fowler George Chinnery Thomas Barnard Hon William Knox Hon Charles Lindsay Nathaniel Alexander Lord Robert Tottenham Richard Mant Alexander Arbuthnot Hon Richard Ponsonby Hon Edmund Knox merged to Killaloe and Clonfert

Authority control	VIAF: 71743875 ISNI: 0000 0000 8152 0710

Persondata
Name	Mant, Richard
Alternative names
Short description	Irish bishop
Date of birth	February 12, 1776
Place of birth
Date of death	1848
Place of death

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