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Horace Rendall Mansfield

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Mansfield

Horace Rendall Mansfield (25 December 1863 – 9 February 1914) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Family

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He was the second son of Cornelius Mansfield of Stratford, Essex. He married in 1885, Mary Annie Rose of Mansfield. They had three sons and one daughter.[1] She died in 1905. He then married in 1908, Sarah Elizabeth Winterton of Leicester.[2]

Career

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He was a manufacturer of clay goods, mainly tiles. He was a Justice of the Peace in Derbyshire.[3] He was Liberal MP for Spalding Division of Lincolnshire from 1900 to 1910.[2] He was elected at the 1900 General Election, gaining the seat from the Liberal Unionist Party by a majority of just 57 votes. He was comfortably re-elected in 1906 before retiring in January 1910.[4]

References

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  • Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench - 1901
  • British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918, F. W. S. Craig
  1. ^ Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench
  2. ^ a b "Mansfield, Horace Rendall". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench
  4. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Spalding
1900January 1910
Succeeded by