Henry Longueville Mansel

Henry Longueville Mansel (born Oct. 6, 1820, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, Eng.—died July 30, 1871, Cosgrove) was a British philosopher and Anglican theologian and priest remembered for his exposition of the philosophy of the Scottish thinker Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856). Educated at the University of Oxford, Mansel was elected Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy there in 1859. In 1866 he was appointed regius professor of ecclesiastical history and canon of Christ Church. Two years later...