Sir Horatio Mann, 2nd Baronet

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Horatio Mann and his Hound by Hugh Douglas Hamilton.

Sir Horatio (Horace) Mann, 2nd Baronet (2 February 1744 – 2 April 1814) was an English MP. He is remembered as a member of the Hambledon Club in Hampshire and a patron of Kent cricket. He was an occasional player but rarely in first-class matches.

Life

Educated at Charterhouse School, he was MP for Maidstone from 1774 to 1784 and MP for Sandwich from 1790 to 1807. He had a number of influential friends including John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, with whom he shared a keen cricketing rivalry. He owned Boughton Place in Boughton Malherbe and Linton Park in Linton, both near Maidstone, and had his family seat at Bourne, near Canterbury. Within its grounds he had his own cricket ground Bishopsbourne Paddock which staged many first-class matches in the 1770s and 1780s. He later moved to Dandelion, near Margate, and established another ground there which was used for some first-class games towards the end of the 18th century.

Mann was a member of the Committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex and London at The Star and Garter in Pall Mall, which drew up a new revision of the Laws of Cricket on 25 February 1774.

He is variously called Sir Horatio and Sir Horace in the sources. Horace was used as a diminutive of Horatio so both names can be regarded as correct usage. He was always called Horace in Scores and Biographies, the main source for his cricketing activities.

His uncle

Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, K.B., (c1701 – 1786), was the long-standing British Resident in Florence, and was accordingly created a baronet on 3 March 1755, having been made a Knight of the Bath in 1748 (when the above-mentioned Horace stood proxy). He died unmarried in Florence on 6 November 1786. His nephew, Horace, (see above) inherited his baronetcy. He had a now renowned correspondence with Horace Walpole.

External links

• CricketArchive record of Sir Horace Mann
• From Lads to Lord's – biography of Sir Horace Mann at the Wayback Machine (archived October 10, 2012)

Further reading

• G B Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
• Ashley Mote, The Glory Days of Cricket, Robson, 1997
• John Nyren, The Cricketers of my Time (ed. Ashley Mote), Robson, 1998
• H T Waghorn, The Dawn of Cricket, Electric Press, 1906
• A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800, Compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by John Ingamells, Yale, 1997.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Charles Marsham Robert Gregory	Member of Parliament for Maidstone 1774–1784 With: Lord Guernsey 1774–1777 Charles Finch 1777–1780 Clement Taylor 1780–1784	Succeeded by Sir Gerard Noel Clement Taylor
Preceded by Sir Philip Stephens Charles Brett	Member of Parliament for Sandwich 1790–1800 With: Sir Philip Stephens	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Sandwich 1801 – 1807 With: Sir Philip Stephens 1801–1806 Sir Thomas Fremantle 1806–1807	Succeeded by Peter Rainier Charles Jenkinson
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Horace Mann	Baronet (of Linton Hall) 1786–1814	Extinct