Richard Mant was an English churchman who became a bishop in Ireland.
10 Facts About Richard Mant
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Richard Mant was a prolific writer, his major work being a History of the Church of Ireland.
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Richard Mant was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Oxford.
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Richard Mant was then appointed to the vicarage of Coggeshall, Essex in 1810, and in 1811 he became Bampton Lecturer.
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Richard Mant died in Ballymoney, Ireland on 2 November 1848.
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In 1808 Richard Mant published The Simpliciad, a satirical poem that parodied Poems, in Two Volumes by William Wordsworth.
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Richard Mant gave notes relating his parodies to the originals.
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In 1832, Richard Mant published The Gospel of Miracles, in a Series of Poetical Sketches, with Illustrative Conversations, an attempt to represent the miracles of the Saviour in verse.
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Richard Mant belonged to a group of revivalist translators of Latin hymns, with John Chandler and Isaac Williams.
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Richard Mant married Elizabeth Wood, of a Sussex family, on 22 December 1804.