MANSFORD, THOMAS ANSTEY (1822-80) was born in Bath, the son of an army surgeon who served in the Peninsular War. Educated for law, he passed in 1843 and acquired a profitable connection in Bath. He came into some money on the death of his father, and emigrated to New Zealand (1860), obtaining his first employment as chief clerk in the resident magistrate's court at Auckland. Two years later he was appointed magistrate at Port Chalmers, where he lived for many years. He was retrenched from the service for a short time in 1867 and returned to practise, but was afterwards appointed magistrate at Dunedin, and in 1878 at Wellington. He was also for a time district judge. Mansford died on 13 Oct 1880.

Otago Daily Times, 18 Oct 1880; N.Z. Times, 5 Nov 1880.

Reference: Volume 2, page 29

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