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". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 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.