Ross Donnelly Mangles

Ross Donnelly Mangles (1801 – 1877) was an English politician, Member of Parliament for Guildford between 1841 and 1857. In the latter year he became Chairman of the East India Company.[1][2]

Career and appointments

He was the son of James Mangles of Guildford and his wife Mary, and was educated at Eton College and East India College, Haileybury.[3] He then joined the Bengal Civil Service.[2]

Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Judicial and Revenue Departments.[2]

Deputy Lieutenant of London.[4]

A director of the New Zealand Co.[4]

Member for Council of India in September 1858 to 1866[2]

Publications
  • A brief vindication of the Honourable East India Company's government of Bengal, from the attacks of Messrs. Rickards & Crawfurd (1830)
  • How To Colonize: The Interest Of The Country, And The Duty Of The Government (1842)
  • The Mysore Reversion, An Exceptional Case
  • Christian Reasons of a Member of the Church of England for Being a Reformer
  • Notes on a Minute of Mr. R. D. Mangles in the Mysore Parliamentary Papers, no. 112 of 1866

Family

Ross Lowis Mangles V.C. was his son.[5]

References
  1. The India List and India Office List for 1905 (Google eBook). London: Harrison and Sons. 1905. p. 111.
  2. Carlyle, E. I. (1901). "Mangles, Ross Donnelly" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. Prior, Katherine. "Mangles, Ross Donnelly". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17934. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. Adams's parliamentary handbook: a key to the Houses of Lords and Commons
  5. "Mangles collection, Surrey Archaeological Society". Retrieved 12 June 2016.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
James Yorke Scarlett		 Member of Parliament for Guildford
1841–1857
With: Charles Baring Wall 1832–1841
Henry Currie 1847–1852
James Bell 1852–1857
William Bovill 1857–1858		 Succeeded by
Guildford Onslow



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