Career
He was an occasional player but rarely in first-class matches. Educated at Charterhouse School, he was Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1774 to 1784 and Member of Parliament for Sandwich from 1790 to 1807. He owned Boughton Place in Boughton Malherbe and Linton Park in Linton, both near Maidstone, and had his family seat at Bourne, near Canterbury.
Within its grounds he had his own cricket ground Bishopsbourne Paddock which staged many first-class matches in the 1770s and 1780s.
He later moved to Dandelion, near Margate, and established another ground there which was used for some first-class games towards the end of the 18th century. He is variously called Sir Horatio and Sir Horace in the sources.
Horace was used as a diminutive of Horatio so both names can be regarded as correct usage. He was always called Horace in Scores and Biographies, the main source for his cricketing activities.
Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, Knight Bachelor, (c1701 – 1786), was the long-standing British Resident in Florence, and was accordingly created a baronet on 3 March 1755, having been made a Knight of the Bath in 1748 (when the above-mentioned Horace stood proxy).
He had a now renowned correspondence with Horace Walpole.
