Author: Mandeville, Edward M.
Biography:
MANDEVILLE, Edward Morgan (fl 1798)
Very little certain information has been located. He was the son of Edward Mandeville (d 1776), a physician of Raheen, County Waterford, and his wife Elizabeth Morgan, an heiress. In 1781 he became captain of the Carrick-on-Suir Union, a volunteer force. The death at Waterford of Edward Mandeville, jun., was reported in Saunders’s Newsletter 11 Apr. 1799 but this presumably was his son. O’Donoghue gives Mandeville’s year of death as 1801 at Carrick-on-Suir; however, his will was proved only in 1804. He contributed verse to periodicals including to the Sentimental and Masonic Magazine; perhaps this was the “Masonic Song" included in his Poems. One of the poems, "The Philanthropic Family," supports abolition of the slave trade. The book includes "Anarchic Reform" which is identified as having been first published in Waterford in 1794 as a pamphlet; no copy has been located. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Sept. 2021; Saunders’s Newsletter 19 Sept. 1781; Saunders’s Newsletter 11 Apr. 1799; Charles Henry Wilson, A Compleat Collection of the Resolutions of the Volunteers [1782]; O’Donoghue)
Other Names:
- Edw. M. Mandeville