Richard, D.D., an eminent Irish prelate of the present century, was born at Southampton, where his father held a rectory, on the 12th February 1776. He entered Winchester College in 1789, and Trinity College, Oxford, in 1793, where he took his bachelor's degree in 1797. He was elected a fellow of Oriel College during the following year, and he began his ecclesiastical career in 1804, as curate of Buriton in Hampshire. Mant was made vicar of Coggeshall in Essex in 1810, and of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London, in 1815, when he received the degree of D.D. from the university of Oxford. In 1820 he removed to Ireland, and was elevated to the bishopric of Killaloe and Kilfenora, where he remained till 1823, when he was translated to the see of Down and Connor. He died at Ballymoney in 1848, while actively pursuing the pious and philanthropic labours to which so much of his life had been devoted. Dr Mant is perhaps most generally known by his valuable Commentary on the Bible, which he edited in conjunction with Dr D'Oyley. Besides a vast number of sermons and tracts, and several poetical pieces, Bishop Mant is the author of Biographical Notices of the Apostles, &c., 1 vol. 8vo, London, 1828; Scriptural Narratives of Christ's Life, 1 vol. 8vo, Oxford, 1830; History of the Church of Ireland from the Reformation to the Union of the Churches of England and Ireland in 1801, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1840.