Nicholas Mann (antiquarian)

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Nicholas Mann (died 1753) was an English antiquary and the Master of the Charterhouse. He was born in Tewkesbury and studied at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow and earned a B.A. in 1703 and an M.A. in 1707. He worked as a tutor to the Marquis of Blandford, then as an assistant at Eton, and later as a clerk in the secretary’s office under Lord Townshend. He travelled in France and Italy, and on his return held positions as king’s waiter at the custom house and keeper of the standing wardrobe at Windsor. With support from the Marlborough family, he became Master of the Charterhouse in 1737. It is said he surprised the Archbishop of Canterbury by declaring himself an Arian. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738 and served as its vice-president in 1751. He died in Bath on 24 November 1753 and was buried at the Charterhouse, where he had placed his own epitaph over the chapel door. In his will he left his library and manuscripts to Eton College, excluding his own writings. Mann also wrote notes on Thomas Gale’s Antonini Iter, a copy of which was later owned by Richard Gough.