Courtenay Mansel

Sir Courtenay Cecil Mansel, 13th Baronet ( February 25, 1880 - January 4, 1933 ) was a British nobleman and politician who was once elected as a member of the House of Commons .

Origin and education

Courtenay Mansel came from a branch line of the old Welsh Mansel family . He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Mansel, 12th Baronet, and his wife Margaretta Bowen Jones. Mansel attended Harrow School from 1893 to 1898 . He then studied at the Middle Temple in London. During the First World War he served as a pilot with the rank of captain in the Royal Flying Corps . After the war, he was admitted to the Middle Temple barrister in 1918 .

Controversial heir to the title

After his father's death in 1892, he had inherited the title Baronet , created in the Baronetage of England in 1622 , of Muddlescombe in the County of Carmarthen, but renounced this in favor of his uncle Edward Mansel (1839-1908), his father's older brother. This was considered the illegitimate son of his grandfather, so that the title was not initially awarded to him. Only in 1903 was the marital birth of his uncle confirmed, so that he was allowed to use the title. After the childless death of his uncle in 1908, Courtenay Mansel inherited the title. Mansel had inherited Maesycrugiau Manor in Carmarthenshire from his father . After the mansion burned down in 1902, he had it rebuilt in 1903. He had the further construction stopped in 1905, so that the house remained unfinished.

Political activity

Even before the First World War, Mansel was considered a possible candidate for the Liberal Party in lower house elections , but ultimately he was not nominated for any constituency. In the general election in 1918, he ran unsuccessfully in the constituency of Coventry . In the 1922 general election he ran for the constituency of Penryn and Falmouth in Cornwall , but was beaten by Conservative Party candidate Denis Shipwright . As early as 1923 there was another election of the lower house. Again Mansel faced Shipwright in the constituency of Penryn and Falmouth. Since the Labor Party renounced its own candidate, Mansel was able to win the electoral district with a narrow majority. In the next general election in 1924, the Labor Party for Penryn and Falmouth again put on its own candidate, so that Mansel lost his seat against George Pilcher , the new candidate of the Conservative Party. Together with Alfred Mond , Mansel switched from the Liberal Party to the Conservative Party in 1926. When Mond became a member of the House of Lords as 1st Baron Melchett in 1928 , there was a by-election in Carmarthenshire. Mansel competed for the Conservative Party, but was clearly beaten. In the general election in 1929 he ran as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the mandate of the University of Wales , which was however clearly won by Ernest Evans , the candidate of the Liberal Party. In the 1931 general election, Mansel did not run again.

In addition to his candidacies for the House of Commons, Mansel served as Justice of the Peace for Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire . He died surprisingly at the age of 52.

Family and offspring

Mansel had married Mary Littlewood , a daughter of Frederick Littlewood , on October 2, 1906 . With her he had three sons and seven daughters. After his death, his eldest son John Philip Ferdinand Mansel (1910–1947) inherited his title.

Activity as an author

Mansel wrote two volumes of poetry:

• The Masque of King Charles VI and other Poems . John Ouseley, London 1912
• The South Wind . Allen & Unwin, London 1923

literature

• MANSEL, Sir Courtenay Cecil . In Who Was Who. London: A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2016. Who Was Who online edition. Oxford: OUP, 2015. Online ed., Feb 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2017

Web links

• Sir Courtenay Cecil Mansel, 13th Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed September 6, 2017.
• Sir Courtenay Mansel at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cadw Listed Buildings: Maesycrugiau. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .