Richard Mant (12 February 1776 – 2 November 1848)[1] was an English churchman who became a bishop in Ireland.
In 1816 he was made rector of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and in 1820 became Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, in Ireland.
[5] Mant's Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary[6] (1837) was one of the earliest collections of translated Latin hymnody in English.
He belonged to a group of revivalist translators of Latin hymns, with John Chandler (1806–1876) and Isaac Williams.
John Ellerton commented on his good taste, but also discerned a lack of understanding of the group of hymns he was handling.
[9] Other works included: Mant married Elizabeth Wood (died 2 April 1846), of a Sussex family, on 22 December 1804.