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MANT, RICHARD (1776–1848)

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MANT, See also:RICHARD (1776–1848) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Southampton on the 12th of See also:February 1776, and was educated at See also:Winchester and Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford. He was elected See also:fellow of See also:Oriel in 1798, and after taking orders held a curacy at Southampton (1802), and then the vicarage of Coggeshall, See also:Essex (181o). In 1811 he was See also:Hampton lecturer, in 1816 was made See also:rector of St Botolph's, and in 1820 See also:bishop of See also:Killaloe and Kilfenoragh (See also:Ireland). In 1823 he was translated to Down and See also:Connor, to which See also:Dromore .was added in x842. In connexion with the Rev. See also:George D'Oyly he wrote a commentary on the whole See also:Bible. Other See also:works by him were the See also:Psalms in an English Metrical Version (1842) and a See also:History of the• See also:Church of Ireland (1839–1841; 2 vols.). MANTEGAllA, See also:PAOLO (1831–1910), See also:Italian physiologist and anthropologist, was born at See also:Monza on the 3ist of See also:October 1831. After spending his student-days at the See also:universities of See also:Pisa and See also:Milan, he gained his M.D. degree at See also:Pavia in 1854. After travel-See also:ling in See also:Europe, See also:India and See also:America, he practised. as a See also:doctor in . the See also:Argentine See also:Republic and See also:Paraguay. Returning to See also:Italy in 1858 he was appointed surgeon at Milan See also:Hospital and See also:professor of See also:general See also:pathology at Pavia. In 1870 he was nominated professor of See also:anthropology at the Instituto di Studii Superiori, See also:Florence.

Here he founded the first Museum of Anthropology and See also:

Ethnology in Italy, and later the Italian Anthropological Society. From 1865 to 1876 he was See also:deputy for Monza in the Italian See also:parliament, subsequently being elected to the See also:senate. He became the See also:object of See also:bitter attacks on the ground of the extent to which he carried the practice of See also:vivisection. His published works include Fisiologia del dolore (188o); Fisiologia dell' amore (1896); Elementid' igiene (1875); Fisonomia e mimica (1883); Le Estasi umane (1887).

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