James Mangles (Royal Navy officer)
| James Mangles | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1786 |
| Died |
18 November 1867 (aged 81) Fairfield, Topsham Road, Exeter |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy |
| Rank | Captain |
| Commands held | HMS Racoon |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
James Mangles FRS, FRGS (1786 – 18 November 1867) was an officer of the Royal Navy, naturalist, horticulturalist and writer. He served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, rising to the rank of captain. In the post-war period, with his brothers Robert and George, who shared his interests in horticulture, botany and plant collection, James was actively involved in the botanical, horticultural and commercial life of early colonial Western Australia.
Life
Mangles was the son of John Mangles (1760–1837), brother of James Mangles (1762–1838), the Member of Parliament.[1] He entered the navy in March 1800, on board the frigate HMS Maidstone, with Captain Ross Donnelly, whom in 1801 he followed to HMS Narcissus. After active service on the coast of France, at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, and at the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, he was, on 24 September 1806, promoted to be lieutenant of HMS Penelope, in which, in February 1809, he was present at the reduction of Martinique.[2]
In 1811 Mangles was appointed to HMS Boyne, and in 1812 to HMS Ville de Paris, flagship in the English Channel of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. In 1814 he was first lieutenant of HMS Duncan, flagship of Sir John Poo Beresford in his voyage to Rio de Janeiro. He was sent home in acting command of the sloop, HMS Racoon and was confirmed in the rank of captain on 13 June 1815. This was his last service afloat.[2]
In 1816 Mangles left England, with his old messmate in the Narcissus, Captain Charles Leonard Irby, on what proved to be a lengthy tour in Europe, Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor.[2] They travelled with William John Bankes and Thomas Legh.[3] Mangles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825, and in 1830 was co-founder and one of the first fellows and members of council of the Royal Geographical Society.[2]
In 1831 Mangles visited the Swan River Colony in Australia. His cousin Emma Stirling (née Mangles) was wife of Lieutenant Governor James Stirling. On his return Mangles went into business with his brother Robert, and commissioned James Drummond to collect seeds, plants and herbarium specimens, which they sold to nurserymen.[4][5][6]
The names of several Western Australian plants honour members of the Mangles family, including the floral emblem of the State of Western Australia, Anigozanthos manglesii (the red and green or Mangles kangaroo paw), named for Robert, who grew the specimen from seed in his English garden; and Melaleuca manglesii, Grevillea manglesii, Rhodanthe manglesii and Ptilotus manglesii (pom poms), named for James.[7][8]
Mangles died at Fairfield, Exeter, on 18 November 1867, aged 81.[2]
Works
The letters of Irby and Mangles were privately printed in 1823, and were published as a volume of Murray's "Home and Colonial Library" in 1844. Mangles was also the author of:[2]
- The Floral Calendar, 1839, a short work on window and town gardening;
- Synopsis of a Complete Dictionary ... of the Illustrated Geographically and Hydrography of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, 1848;
- Papers and Despatches relating to the Arctic Searching Expeditions of 1850-1-2, 1852; and
- The Thames Estuary, a Guide to the Navigation of the Thames Mouth, 1853.
Notes
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- ↑ "Mangles collection, Surrey Archaeological Society". Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Mangles, James". Dictionary of National Biography. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - ↑ H. Goren (15 March 2011). Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East. I. B. Tauris. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-84885-496-3.
- ↑ www.anbg.gov.au, Mangles, James (1786 - 1867).
- ↑ Jennifer M. T. Carter; Roger Cross (2013). Ginger for Pluck: The Life and Times of Miss Georgina King. Wakefield Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-74305-171-9.
- ↑ "Mangles, James (1786 - 1867)". Australian National Botanic Gardens. Canberra: Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ↑ Brophy, Joseph J.; Craven, Lyndley A.; Doran, John C. (2013). Melaleucas: their botany, essential oils and uses. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. p. 238. ISBN 9781922137517.
- ↑ Holly Kerr Forsyth (1 January 2007). The Constant Gardener. The Miegunyah Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-522-85432-9.
External links
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). " Mangles, James". A Naval Biographical Dictionary. John Murray. Wikisource.
- Irby, Charles Leonard; Mangles, James (1823). Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor; during the years 1817 & 1818. London: Printed for Private Distribution by T. White & Co. Index
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Mangles, James". Dictionary of National Biography. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.