Richard Mant
English churchman and writer (1776–1848)
Richard Mant
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Born |
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1776-02-12
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12 February 1776
Southampton
, England
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Died |
2 November 1848
(1848-11-02)
(aged
72)
Ballymoney
, Ireland
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Occupation(s) | Bishop, hymnodist |
Richard Mant (12 February 1776 – 2 November 1848) [1] was an English churchman who became a bishop in Ireland. He was a prolific writer, his major work being a History of the Church of Ireland . [2]
Life
He was born at Southampton , [1] where his father Richard Mant D.D. was headmaster of the King Edward VI School . He was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Oxford (which he entered in 1793). His youngest sister was the writer Alicia Catherine Mant . His maternal grandfather was the scholar Joseph Bingham . He was elected a Scholar of the College in 1794, graduated with a B.A. in 1797, and became a Fellow of Oriel College in 1798 (a position he held up to 1804). [2]
Mant was ordained in the Church of England , initially holding a curacy at Southampton in 1802. He was then appointed to the vicarage of Coggeshall , Essex in 1810, and in 1811 he became Bampton Lecturer . In 1816 he was made rector of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate , and in 1820 became Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora , in Ireland . In 1823 he was translated to Down and Connor , and from 1842 was the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore when the two dioceses united. [2]
Richard Mant died in Ballymoney , Ireland on 2 November 1848. [1]
Works
In 1808 Mant published The Simpliciad , a satirical poem that parodied Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) by William Wordsworth . He gave notes relating his parodies to the originals. [3] The aim of the work included the other Lake Poets , Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , with To a Young Ass by Coleridge used to tease the group as a whole. [4] In 1832, Mant published The Gospel of Miracles, in a Series of Poetical Sketches, with Illustrative Conversations, an attempt to represent the miracles of the Saviour in verse. [5]
Mant's Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary [6] (1837) was one of the earliest collections of translated Latin hymnody in English. He belonged to a group of revivalist translators of Latin hymns, with John Chandler (1806–1876) and Isaac Williams . John Ellerton commented on his good taste, but also discerned a lack of understanding of the group of hymns he was handling. [7] The Psalms in an English Metrical Version [8] (1824) were influenced by Robert Lowth 's theories of biblical poetry , the psalms becoming "stiff and stately odes" according to John Julian . [9]
Other works included:
- A biblical commentary written with George D'Oyly
- History of the Church of Ireland (1839–1841; 2 vols.).
- An Appeal to the Gospel (1812), Bampton Lectures.
- The Book of Common Prayer...with Notes (1850).
- An Explanation of the Rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer (1864).
Family
Mant married Elizabeth Wood (died 2 April 1846), of a Sussex family, on 22 December 1804. Their children were Walter Bishop Mant , another son, and a daughter. [2]
References
- The Simpliciad : 1808 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789–1834) Publisher: Woodstock Books Inc. ISBN 1-85477-076-4
Notes
- 1 2 3 "Richard Mant" . The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology . Canterbury Press.
- 1 2 3 4 s:Mant, Richard (DNB00)
- ↑ Brian R Bates (22 July 2015). Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception . Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-317-32227-6 .
- ↑ Richard Gravil (2009). Grasmere, 2009: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference . Humanities-Ebooks. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-84760-110-0 .
- ↑ Candles, Isaac (1834). "Review of Montgomery's Messiah, and Mant's Gospel of Miracles". The Literary and Theological Review . 1 (4): 648–68 – via American Periodicals Series.
- ↑ Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary
- ↑ John Julian (1907). A Dictionary of Hymnology . Vol. 1. John Murray. p. 713.
- ↑ Psalms in an English Metrical Version
- ↑ John Julian (1907). A Dictionary of Hymnology . Vol. 2. John Murray. p. 921.
External links
- Attribution
This article
incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Chisholm, Hugh
, ed. (1911). "
Mant, Richard
".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Vol.
17 (11th
ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.
602.
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Preceded
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Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus
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Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
1820 – 1823 |
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Preceded
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Nathaniel Alexander
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Bishop of Down and Connor
1823 – 1842 |
Succeeded
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Became Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore
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Preceded
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First Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore
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Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore
1842 – 1848 |
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Bishops of Down and Connor; of Down, Connor and Dromore; and of Down and Dromore
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Down and Connor |
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