Albert Mangles
(1836-1891)
16 August 1861

Volume 5, sitting number 5528.

Born on 9 January 1836 at Calcutta, Albert Champion Mangles was the son of Ross Donnelly Mangles, who was the Member of Parliament for Guildford (1841-1858), the chairman of the East India Company (1857-58) and a member of the Council of India (1858-1866).  

He appears on the 1861 census living at the home of his parents, Woodbridge House, Stoke, Surrey. He gave ‘Member of Bengal Civil Service’ as his profession. Also present that night were four sisters, a younger brother, three visitors and ten servants.

On 20 March 1866 ‘at Mosuffurpore, Tirhoot, Albert Champion Mangles, Esq., Council of India, [married] Amy Amelia Elliot, eldest daughter of Captain Amyand Elliot, late Bengal Cavalry’ (Cork Constitution, 25 May 1866).

In 1878 a brief report under ‘Official Charges in Bengal’ mentions Albert as the ‘Officiating Opium Agent, Behar’ (Homeward Mail from India, China, and the East, 20 April 1878).

Albert and Amy appear on the 1891 census living at 31 Brompton Crescent, Knightsbridge. They had four live-in servants. Albert gave ‘Retired officer’ as his profession.

Albert Champion Mangles ‘late of 31 Brompton-crescent in the County of Middlesex’ died, aged 55, on 15 April 1891 at Fitzroy House, Fitzroy Square, London. He left an estate valued at £10,720.