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
- ^ The India List and India Office List for 1905 (Google eBook). London: Harrison and Sons. 1905. p. 111.
- ^ a b c d Carlyle, E. I. (1901). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ 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.)
- ^ a b Adams's parliamentary handbook: a key to the Houses of Lords and Commons [1]
- ^ "Mangles collection, Surrey Archaeological Society". Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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