William Mansel, 9th Baronet

Sir William Mansel, 9th Baronet (March 1, 1739 - January 3, 1804 ) was a British nobleman and politician.

William Mansel came from an impoverished branch of the old Welsh Mansel family . He was the only son of Sir Richard Mansel, 8th Baronet, and his second wife Rebecca, a daughter of William Ware of Farranalough, County Cork . When his father died in February 1749, he inherited the title Baronet , created in the Baronetage of England in 1622 , of Muddlescombe in the County of Carmarthen, and the Iscoed manor at St Ishmael in Carmarthenshire . From 1772 he had a new mansion built in Iscoed , probably based on a design by Anthony Keck .

Mansel was sheriff of Carmarthenshire from 1781 to 1782 . As a supporter of William Pitt , he was elected MP for Carmathenshire to the House of Commons in 1784 after both the Rice families of Newton House and Vaughan of Golden Grove could not make a candidate. However, he was probably rarely present in parliament and, despite his efforts from 1789, was not re-elected as a candidate in the 1790 election. Instead, the now adult George Rice was elected.

On August 26, 1765, he married Mary Philipps, daughter of John Philipps of Coedgain. The couple had eleven children, seven of whom were sons and four daughters. His eldest son William inherited the baronet title, his second son Richard was also a member of the House of Commons from 1806 to 1812. The unfinished Iscoed House was sold to General Thomas Picton after his death .

Web links

• Peter DG Thomas: MANSEL, Sir William, 9th Bt. (1739-1804), of Iscoed, Carm. (History of Parliament online)
• Sir William Mansel, 9th Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed July 28, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ RG Thorne: Carmarthenshire, 1790-1820 (History of Parliament online). Retrieved February 6, 2015 . 
2. ^ British Listed Buildings: Iscoed, St Ishmael. Retrieved February 6, 2015 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Richard Mansel	Mansel Baronet, of Muddlescombe 1749-1804	William Mansel