Mansel

Mansel, Henry Longueville (1820-71), Dean of St. Paul's, was born in Northamptonshire and educated at Merchant Taylors' and St. John's College, Oxford. He was successively Reader in Moral Philosophy, Waynflete Professor, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and Canon of Christ Church at Oxford, and in 1869 became Dean of St. Paul's. His Bampton lectures, The Limits of Religious Thought, may be best remembered from a famous protest by J. S. Mill (On Hamilton). In 1849 he had published an edition of Aldrich's Logic, which was long in use: and his chief metaphysical works were Prolegomena Logica (1851), and The Philosophy of the Conditioned (1866). He was also successful in light literature and parody, and had a brilliant reputation as a talker.