10 Facts About Robert Mansell

Sir Robert Mansell was an admiral of the English Royal Navy and a Member of Parliament, mostly for Welsh constituencies.

Robert Mansell's name was sometimes given as Mansfield and Maunsell.

Robert Mansell subsequently took part in Essex's Islands Voyage to the Azores, then held commands off the Irish coast during Essex's campaign in Ireland.

The Council seem to have got wind of the dispute between Mansell and Heydon, and the Lord Chief Justice wrote to Sir Robert Cecil, urging him to forestall it since the county was "already too much wrought into faction".

Robert Mansell remained loyal to the Queen, and took an active part in arresting those implicated as accomplices.

Robert Mansell was defeated, perhaps because of disapproval of his duel, but was however elected as MP for King's Lynn at the same election.

Robert Mansell later served as member for Carmarthenshire, Glamorgan and Lostwithiel.

Robert Mansell accompanied the Earl of Nottingham on his mission to Spain in 1605.

Robert Mansell established glass factories in various places, including the first at Newcastle, pioneering the use of sea coal rather than wood in the manufacturing process, and there are records of his later defence of his patents in parliamentary debates.

Robert Mansell acquired the Vauxhall glassworks in Lambeth and glass factories in Woolwich, where he managed the dockyard and the ropeyard, close to his home in East-Greenwich.