Thomas Mansel, 2nd Baron Mansel

Sir Thomas Mansel, 2nd Baron Mansel (also Thomas Mansell ; born December 26, 1719 , † January 29, 1744 ) was a British nobleman and politician.

Thomas Mansel came from the old Welsh Mansel family . He was the eldest son of Robert Mansel and his wife Anne Shovel, a daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel . His father died at the end of April 1723, his mother married John Blackwood from Charlton for the second time after his death . After the death of his grandfather Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel , he became heir to his titles Baron Mansel and Baronet , of Margram, and the extensive estates of the family in South Wales on December 10, 1723 . When he was a minor, his property was administered by his uncle, Bussy Mansel . Thomas Mansel attended Christ Church College in Oxford . After he came of age in 1740, he became a member of the House of Lords in 1741 , but died at the age of 24.

Since he was unmarried and remained childless, his uncle Christopher Mansel inherits the title and the property. After he died in November 1744, his brother Bussy Mansel followed him as 4th Baron Mansel. After he too died in 1750 without male heirs, according to the will of Christopher Mansel Thomas Talbot , the second son of his sister Mary Mansel, and from John Ivory Talbot , Margam Abbey and the Mansel family's possessions, while the titles Baron Mansel and Baronet, of Margam extinguished.

Web links

• Sir Thomas Mansell, 2nd Baron Mansell of Margam, on thepeerage.com , accessed July 28, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ArtFund: Thomas, 2nd Baron Mansel of Margam with his Blackwood Half Brothers and Sister by Allan Ramsay. Retrieved April 15, 2015 . 
2. ^ Welsh Biography Online: Mansel. Retrieved April 15, 2015 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Mansel	Baron Mansel 1723-1744	Christopher Mansel