CLEMENT

See also:

• MANSFIELD
• MANSFIELD, RICHARD (1857-1907)
• MANSFIELD, WILLIAM MURRAY, 1ST EARL

MANSFIELD

See also:

• CLEMENT MANSFIELD INGLEBY (1823—1886)

INGLEBY (1823—1886)  , English Shakespearian scholar, was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on the 29th of October 1823, the son of a solicitor . After taking his degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered his father's office, eventually becoming a partner . In 18J9 he abandoned the law and left Birmingham to live near London . He contributed articles on literary, scientific and other subjects to various magazines, but from 1874 devoted himself almost entirely to Shakespearian literature . His first work in this field had been an exposure of the manipulations of John Payne Collier, entitled The Shakespeare Fabrications (1859); his work as a commentator began with The Still Lion (1874), enlarged in the following year into Shakespeare Hermeneutics . In this book many of the then existing difficulties of Shakespeare's text were explained . In the same year (1875) he published the Centurie of Prayse, a collection of references to Shakespeare and his works between 1592 and 1692 . His Shakespeare: the Man and the Book was published in 1877—1881; he also wrote Shakespeare's Bones (1882), in which he suggested the disinterment of Shakespeare's bones and an examination of his skull . This suggestion, though not due to vulgar curiosity, was regarded, however, by public opinion as sacrilegious . He died on the 26th of September 1886, at Ilford, Essex . Although Ingleby's reputation now rests solely on his works on Shakespeare, he wrote on many other subjects . He was the author of hand-books on metaphysic and logic, and made some contributions to the study of natural science .