NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mant, Richard, 1776-1848 NRA: Mant Richard (1776-1848) Bishop of Down Connor and Dromore DNB: Mant, Richard (1776-1848), bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore LBT ID: RiMant1848 VIAF ID: 71743875 LOC ID: no90016776 | B/BAP: 1776-02-12 DIED: 1848-11-02 |
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Poet and divine educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford; he was bishop of
Killaloe and Kilfenora (1820), Down and Connor (1823), edited the poems of Thomas Warton,
and published History of the Church of Ireland, 2 vols
(1840). | |