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{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}

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[[Image:Colin Campbell and William Mansfield - Project Gutenberg eText 16528.jpg|thumbnail|William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst (left) with [[Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde]]]]
'''Baron Sandhurst''', of [[Sandhurst, Berkshire|Sandhurst]] in the [[County of Berkshire]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23718 |date=21 March 1871 |page=1492}}</ref> It was created on 28 March 1871 for the soldier [[William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst|Sir William Mansfield]], [[Commander-in-Chief, India|Commander-in-Chief of India]] between 1865 and 1870 and [[Commander-in-Chief, Ireland|Commander-in-Chief of Ireland]] between 1870 and 1875. He was the grandson of [[James Mansfield|Sir James Mansfield]], [[Solicitor General for England and Wales|Solicitor-General]] and [[Chief Justice of the Common Pleas]]. Lord Sandhurst's eldest son, the second Baron, was a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and also served as [[Governor of Bombay]]. On 1 January 1917 he was created '''Viscount Sandhurst''', of Sandhurst in the County of Berkshire, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29913 |date=23 January 1917 |page=842}}</ref> However, he had no surviving male issue and on his death in 1921 the viscountcy became extinct. He was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother, the third Baron. {{As of|2021}} the title is held by the latter's great-grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2002. He is a barrister and judge and was elected to a hereditary-peers' seat in the [[House of Lords]] in 2021.

==Barons Sandhurst (1871)==
*[[William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst|William Rose Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst]] (1819–1876)
*[[William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst|William Mansfield, 2nd Baron Sandhurst]] (1855–1921) (created '''Viscount Sandhurst''' in 1917)

==Viscounts Sandhurst (1917)==
*[[William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst|William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst, 2nd Baron Sandhurst]] (1855–1921)

==Barons Sandhurst (1871; Reverted)==
*John William Mansfield, 3rd Baron Sandhurst (1857–1933)
*[[Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst|Ralph Sheldon Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst]] (1892–1964)
*John Edward Terence Mansfield, 5th Baron Sandhurst (1920–2002)
*[[Guy Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst|Guy Rhys John Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst]] (b. 1949)

The [[heir apparent]] is the present holder's only son, Hon. Edward James Mansfield (b. 1982)

== Arms ==

{{emblem table
| crest = Out of an Eastern crown Argent a gryphon’s head Sable beaked Or between two branches of laurel Proper.
| 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.
| image = Sandhurst.svg
| motto = Steadfast
}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1949}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Charles Edward Mansfield]], army officer and diplomat, brother of the first baron
*[[James Mansfield|Sir James Mansfield]]
*[[James Mansfield (cricketer, born 1862)|James Mansfield]], cricketer and fourth son of the first baron

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{cite book| title=Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage| editor-first=Charles| editor-last=Kidd| url=https://archive.org/details/b24883797/mode/2up?ref=ol| date=1903| publisher=London: Dean and son| page=774}}
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
{{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}}

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[[Category:Noble titles created in 1871]]
[[Category:1871 establishments in the United Kingdom]]

Baron Sandhurst - Revision history

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