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Mansfield is an English surname derived from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire or a similar toponym. It can also be a variant of the surname Mansell or Maunsell, as can be illustrated by the case of the politician and Royal Navy Admiral Sir Robert Mansell. [1] [2] Notable people with this surname include the following:
According to historian William Horner Dove (1894) there is dispute to the origins of the name. Three conjectures have been considered, either the name was given to the noble family of Mansfield who came over with King William the Conqueror, others indicate the name came from Manson, an Anglo-Saxon word for traffic and a field meaning a place of trade, or named after the River Maun which runs ...
Pearce is a surname, from knights of the Norman lord Mansfield prior to the invasion of England. It derives etymologically from the Germanic word to pierce, and was a name commonly given to warrior caste in Saxon/Jute, p-celtic and oil languages. Another etymology is from Piers, the medieval vernacular form of Peter, and may refer to:
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This is a list of people from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England with a Wikipedia page. Names in sections are in alphabetical order. Names in sections are in alphabetical order. Information not on the subject's Wikipedia page must be referenced.
Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence , Virginia Woolf , Lady Ottoline Morrell and ...
The titles Earl of Mansfield (in the County of Nottingham) and Earl of Mansfield (in the County of Middlesex) were created in 1776 and 1792, respectively, for the Scottish lawyer and judge William Murray, 1st Baron Mansfield, fourth son of David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont (see Viscount of Stormont for the earlier history of the family).
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British judge, politician, lawyer, and peer best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire, to a family of Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth before moving to London at the age of 13 to study at Westminster School.