Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel

Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel (* around 1701; † November 29, 1750 ) was a Welsh nobleman and politician.

Origin, youth and heritage

He came from the old Welsh Mansel family , who had been one of the leading gentry families in South Wales since the 16th century . He was the third son of Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel of Margam Abbey and of Martha, daughter and heiress of Francis Millington of Newick Place , Sussex . His father was promoted to 1st Baron Mansel in 1712 . He probably got his unusual first name from his godfather Thomas Mansel von Briton Ferry, whose grandfather Bussy Mansel was. After his godfather died in 1706 without male heirs, Bussy Mansel became the heir to his possessions at Neath . He studied at Christ Church College , Oxford in 1717 . After his father's death in December 1723, he became the heir of his godfather in Briton Ferry, while his nephew Thomas , the son of his older brother Robert , inherited his father's titles and estates. Bussy's brother Robert had already died in April 1723 a few months before his father's death, and until his nephew came of age in 1740, Bussy Mansel also administered his land in South Wales. After the death of Sir Thomas Stradling, who was distantly related to him, in 1738, he also inherited a lifelong right to use his property at St Donat's Castle .

Political activity

Mansel became one of the leading politicians in Glamorgan . In January 1727 he ran successfully for the Tories in a by-election in Cardiff for the House of Commons . He was re-elected in the general parliamentary election that year. As Tory, he supported the opposition to Prime Minister Robert Walpole in the House of Commons . In the general election in 1734 he was narrowly defeated in Glamorgan against William Talbot . After Talbot inherited the title of Baron Talbot after the death of his father in 1737 and thus left the House of Commons, Mansel was elected unopposed as Knight of the Shire for Glamorgan in the by-election in March 1737 . After the death of his nephew Thomas in January 1744 and his older brother Christopher in November 1744, he inherited the family's extensive estates in South Wales and the titles of 4th Baron Mansel and 8th Baronet, of Margam in the County of Glamorgan . He resigned his parliamentary mandate and became a member of the House of Lords .

Family and offspring

On May 17, 1724, Mansel married Elizabeth Hervey , the eldest daughter of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol . After her untimely death in September 1727, he married Barbara Blackett on March 13, 1729 , the only daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey and widow of William Blackett, 2nd Baronet , with whom he had a daughter.

Mansel was considered stingy and left a great fortune when he died. Since he had died without male offspring, his titles became void upon his death. His daughter Louisa Barbarina Mansel inherited only his estates from Briton Ferry, since according to his brother Christopher's will, his nephew Thomas Talbot , a son of his sister Mary and John Ivory Talbot , became the heir of Margam Abbey and the other estates in South Wales. After Thomas Talbot had died in 1758, the property fell to his son Thomas Mansel Talbot . Bussy's daughter Louisa married George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon , in 1757 . She died in 1776, according to other sources only in February 1786 without surviving descendants. Her husband retained a lifelong usufruct of Briton Ferry, after his death the property fell to Louisa's godchild, George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey .

Web links

• Peter DG Thomas, RS Lea: Mansel, Hon. Bussy (? 1701-50), of Briton Ferry, Glam. (History of Parliament Online)
• Bussy Mansell, 4th Baron Mansell of Margam on thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hon. Robert Mansell on thepeerage.com , accessed September 16, 2016.
2. ^ EP Statham: History of the family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel) . London 1917, p. 41
3. ↑ The Hon. Louisa Barbarina Mansell on thepeerage.com , accessed September 16, 2016.
4. ^ Archives Wales: West Glamorgan Archive Service, Briton Ferry Estate. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Christopher Mansel	Baron Mansel 1744-1750	Title expired