GeneralWilliam Rose Mansfield, 1st Baron SandhurstGCBGCSIPC (Ire) (21 June 1819 – 23 June 1876) was a British military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of India from 1865 to 1870.
In Bombay now Mumbai, there is local train station named after Baron Sandhurst. Sanhurst Road station in Central Line.
Background and early life
Portrait from the Illustrated London News 13 May 1865
In 1854, he married Margaret Fellowes, who became a noted suffragist and spiritualist after his death.
Military career
Mansfield was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the 53rd Foot as an ensign in 1835.[1] He was promoted to lieutenant on 31 August 1838 and to captain on 10 February 1843.[2][3] He was mostly active in India and served in the Sutlej campaign of 1845 to 1846.[1]
Promoted to major on 3 December 1847, he commanded the 53rd Regiment in the Punjab from 1848 to 1849[1][4] and was employed in the Peshawar operations in 1851 and 1852,[1] receiving promotion to lieutenant-colonel on 9 May 1851 and to colonel on 6 October 1854.[5][6]
In 1871 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council[1] and raised to the peerage as Baron Sandhurst, of Sandhurst in the County of Berkshire.[12]
Sandhurst died in London on 23 June 1876, aged 57, and was buried at Digswell church, Hertfordshire.[1] He was succeeded in the Barony by his eldest son William, who was created Viscount Sandhurst in 1917.[1] However, this title became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the Barony by his younger brother.
Arms
Coat of arms of William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst
Crest
Out of an Eastern crown Argent a gryphon’s head Sable beaked Or between two branches of laurel Proper.
Escutcheon
Argent on a chevron embattled Azure between three maunches Sable an Eastern crown Or on a chief engrailed of the third a lion of the fourth combatant with a tiger cowed Proper.
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