Charles Edward Mansfield
Colonel Sir Charles Mansfield
KCMG
(11 October 1828 – 1 August 1907) was a British army officer and diplomat, envoy to several countries.
Career
Charles Edward Mansfield joined the
Indian Mutiny in 1857 Charles was severely wounded at the Second Battle of Cawnpore.[4] Afterwards he was again mentioned in despatches[5] and was made brevet major, and substantive major in June 1858.[6]
In 1865 Charles Mansfield was appointed
Minister Resident at Bogotá 1878–81,[12] at Caracas 1881–84[13] (representing the United Kingdom at the centenary of Simón Bolívar in 1883), and at Lima from 1884[14] until 1894 when he retired. He was knighted KCMG in 1887.[15]
Publication
- A Latter-Day Novel, Chapman and Hall, London, 1878[16]
References
- MANSFIELD, Sir Charles Edward, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- Obituary, The Times, London, 8 August 1907, page 3
- ^ The London Gazette, 1 September 1848
- ^ The London Gazette, 8 August 1851
- ^ The London Gazette, 29 December 1854
- ^ The London Gazette, 29 January 1858, J.W. Mansfield should read C.E. Mansfield, see The London Gazette, 2 February 1858
- ^ The London Gazette, 29 January 1858
- ^ The London Gazette, 15 June 1858
- ^ The London Gazette, 27 June 1865
- ^ The London Gazette, 22 August 1865
- ^ The London Gazette, 2 April 1869
- ^ The London Gazette, 7 July 1876
- ^ The London Gazette, 9 November 1877
- ^ The London Gazette, 23 August 1878
- ^ The London Gazette, 6 May 1881
- ^ The London Gazette, 6 January 1885
- ^ The London Gazette, 8 July 1887
- ^ A Latter-Day Novel. By Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Mansfield., The Spectator, 13 July 1878