Charles Edward Mangles Explained

Charles Edward Mangles (1798–1874) was an English businessman and Member of Parliament.

Life

Mangles was a son of James Mangles.^[1] He was employed as a naval officer by the East India Company, a midshipman in 1811, becoming a commander in 1827 on the Marchioness of Ely.^[2] In 1831 he left the service of the East India Company, in order to marry, and joined his elder brother Frederick, who had taken over their father's business, as a partner.^[3] In the following decade Mangles & Co. became an East India agency.^[4] The private bank Mangles, Keen & Co. was operating in Epsom in 1838.^[5]

Mangles acquired the Poyle Park estate near Farnham, Surrey, by purchase, under the terms of the will of his father.^[6] He was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for in 1841.^[7] That year, he was a director of the London and Blackwall Railway.^[8] Active in promoting the Victoria Dock for London by Act of Parliament (1850), he worked with Edward Ladd Betts, Samuel Morton Peto, and another banker, J. P. Kennard.^[9] He became chairman of Royal Mail Steam Packet in 1856.^[10] In 1857 he was elected to Parliament as member for .^[11] Shortly afterwards he became chairman of the London and South Western Railway Company.^[12]

In 1864 the West Surrey private bank, C. E. Mangles & Co., dating back to 1836, was converted into the public South Eastern Banking Company; Mangles joined the new board. It expanded and changed name, taking over a Ramsgate bank, and being known as the Counties Joint Stock Bank and English Joint-Stock Bank. It did not survive the Panic of 1866, however. Charles Bradlaugh brought an action against the English Joint-Stock Bank, for unpaid commission.^{[13] [14] [15]}

Family

Mangles married Rose Newcomb.^[1] James Henry Mangles the diarist was their eldest son.^[16]

External links

• Richard Preston, Captain Charles Edward Mangles (1798-1873): Southampton MP that was not to be, Southampton Occasional Paper no. 8 (PDF)

Notes and References

1. Book: Pamela Statham-Drew. James Stirling: admiral and founding governor of Western Australia. June 2003. University of Western Australia Press. 46–7. 9781876268947.
2. Book: Report from the select committee on East India maritime officers: Appendix and index. 1837. 86.
3. Book: Pamela Statham-Drew. James Stirling: admiral and founding governor of Western Australia. June 2003. University of Western Australia Press. 236. 9781876268947.
4. Book: Alain Le Pichon. China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843. 10 August 2006. OUP/British Academy. 978-0-19-726337-2. 187 note 51.
5. Book: England. A list of the country banks of England and Wales, private and proprietary; also of the names of all the shareholders of joint-stock banks [&c.].. 1838. 21.
6. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/mangles-james-1762-1838 Mangles, James (1762–1838), of Woodbridge, nr. Guildford, Surr.
7. Book: The Parliamentary Companion. 1858. Whittaker & Company. 244.
8. Robinson's railway directory, containing the names of the directors of all the principal railways in Great Britain, derived from original sources, 1841. LSE Selected Pamphlets, at p. 13. Contributed by: LSE Library. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/60240022
9. Book: Phillip Cottrell. Investment Banking in England 1856-1881 (RLE Banking & Finance): Volume One. 27 November 2012. Routledge. 978-1-136-30146-9. 326.
10. Book: Robert E. Forrester. British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851–1965: A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines. 15 April 2016. Routledge. 978-1-317-17185-0. 36.
11. Book: Pamela Statham-Drew. James Stirling: admiral and founding governor of Western Australia. June 2003. University of Western Australia Press. 524. 9781876268947.
12. Book: Charles E. Mangles. To the Shareholders in the London and South Western Railway—A letter. 1859. W. P. Metchim & Company. 1.
13. Book: P. L. Cottrell. Investment Banking in England 1856–1881: A Case Study of the International Financial Society. 23 May 2012. Routledge. 978-0-415-53020-0. 335.
14. Book: Forrest Capie. Geoffrey Edward Wood. Banking Theory, 1870-1930: The amalgamation movement in English banking 1825-1925. 1871. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-415-20165-0. 33–4.
15. Book: The Bankers' Magazine. 1864. BPC (Bankers' Magazine) Limited. 305.
16. Book: James Henry Mangles. Earl A. Knies. Tennyson at Aldworth: the diary of James Henry Mangles. registration. 1984. Ohio University Press. 978-0-8214-0724-0. 2.