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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Viscount Sandhurst
| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=|GCSI|GCIE|GCVO|PC}}
| image = Lord Sandhurst.jpg

| order1 = [[Lord Chamberlain of the Household]]
| term_start1 = 14 February 1912
| term_end1 = 2 November 1921
| monarch1 = [[George V]]
| primeminister1 = [[H. H. Asquith]] <br> [[David Lloyd George]]
| predecessor1 = [[Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer|The Earl Spencer]]
| successor1 = [[John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl|The Duke of Atholl]]

| order2 = [[Governor of Bombay]]
| term_start2 = 1895
| term_end2 = 1900
| monarch2 = [[Queen Victoria]]
| primeminister2 =
| predecessor2 = [[George Harris, 4th Baron Harris|The Lord Harris]]
| successor2 = [[Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote|The Lord Northcote]]

| birth_date = {{birth date|1855|8|21|df=yes}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1921|11|2|1855|8|21|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| party = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
| alma_mater =
| spouse = (1) Lady Victoria Spencer <br>(1855–1906) <br> (2) Eleanor Arnold (d. 1934)
}}
'''William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCSI|GCIE|GCVO|PC|}} (21 August 1855 – 2 November 1921) was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and colonial governor. He was [[Governor of Bombay]] between 1895 and 1900 and [[Lord Chamberlain of the Household]] between 1912 and 1921.

==Background and early life==
Mansfield was the son of [[William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst]], and [[Margaret Sandhurst|Margaret]], daughter of Robert Fellowes, and a noted suffragist. He served in the [[Coldstream Guards]], achieving the rank of lieutenant.<ref name="thepeerage.com">[http://www.thepeerage.com/p10515.htm#i105149 thepeerage.com William Mansfield, 1st and last Viscount Sandhurst]</ref>

==Political career==
Mansfield succeeded his father as Baron Sandhurst in 1876, aged 20, and was entitled to a seat in the [[House of Lords]] from his 21st birthday a few months later. When the Liberals came to power under [[William Ewart Gladstone]] in 1880, he was appointed a [[Lord-in-waiting]], a post he held until 1885 when the Liberals left office. He was [[Under-Secretary of State for War]] in Gladstone's brief 1886 administration and again from 1892 to 1895 under Gladstone and [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery|Lord Rosebery]]. In 1895 he was made [[Governor of Bombay]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26585 |date=1 January 1895 |page=4}}</ref> a post he held until February 1900.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/> After he had stepped down, he was appointed an extra Knight Grand Commander of the [[Order of the Star of India]] (GCSI) on 9 March 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27172 |page=1628 |date=9 March 1900}}</ref>

Lord Sandhurst did not initially serve in the Liberal administrations headed by [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]] and [[H. H. Asquith]] but was sworn of the [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Council]] in 1907.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27994 |date=12 February 1907 |page=961 }}</ref> He did return to ministerial office in 1912 when Asquith appointed him [[Lord Chamberlain of the Household]] (succeeding his brother-in-law [[Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer|Lord Spencer]]).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28581 |date=16 February 1912 |page=1169 }}</ref> He continued in this post until his death in 1921, the last five years under the premiership of [[David Lloyd George]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32525 |date=22 November 1921 |page=9245 }}</ref> In 1917 he was made '''Viscount Sandhurst''', of Sandhurst in the County of Berkshire.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29913 |date=23 January 1917 |page=842 }}</ref>

==Family==
Lord Sandhurst married, firstly, Lady Victoria, daughter of [[Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer]], on 20 July 1881. They had two children, who both died in infancy: The Honourable John Robert Mansfield (4 September 1882–5 September 1882) and the Honourable Elizabeth Mansfield (9 June 1884–17 October 1884).

After his first wife's death in March 1906 he married secondly Eleanor, younger daughter of [[Matthew Arnold]] and widow of [[Armine Wodehouse (Liberal politician)|Armine Wodehouse]], on 5 July 1909. There were no children from this marriage.

Lord Sandhurst died in 1921, aged 66. The viscountcy became extinct on his death while the barony was inherited by his brother, John Mansfield. Lady Sandhurst died in December 1934.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|escutcheon = Argent on a chevron embattled Azure between three maunches Sable an Eastern crown Or on a chief engrailed of the third a lion of the fourth combatant with a tiger cowed Proper.
|crest = Out of an Eastern crown Argent a gryphon’s head Sable beaked Or between two branches of laurel Proper.
|motto = Steadfast<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1949}}</ref>}}

==References==
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==External links==
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