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William Albert Mansell was the son of Rev. Henry and Annie (Benshoff) Mansell, and was born on March 30, 1864 in Moradabad, India. At seven, he, along with his two sisters, was taken by his mother to America, where he remained for eighteen years. He made his home with his grandfather in Newark, Ohio.
At the age of six he could read the Bible in English, Urdu, and Hindi. In Ohio he attended the public schools. He went to the "mourners' bench" at ten, and took an active interest in religion. Graduating from the Newark high school in 1880, he entered Ohio Wesleyan University in the fall of that year, and upon the completion of his college course in 1884, obtained a state teacher's certificate and was made principal for two years of the schools of Worthington, Ohio. In the fall of 1886 he entered the Boston University School of Theology and graduated there from three years later, being chosen one of two speakers representing his class at Commencement. During his senior year he was ordained deacon and applied for and received appointment to service in India under the Methodist Episcopal Church.
After a summer's supply of the pulpit of the Methodist Church at Nahant, Massachussets, he sailed for India and arrived in Bombay on November 19. He began work almost immediately as teacher of philosophy and English literature in Lucknow (later Reid) Christian College. For two years (1890 - 93) he acted as vice-principal, and was then made principal, serving until 1898. He served, also, as pastor of the local English Methodist church and as preacher on the Hindustani circuit, being ordained elder at Lucknow, January 5, 1890, by Bishop Thoburn. In addition he edited India's Young Folks. In 1896 Mansell was one of the organizers of the Student Volunteer Movement in India. In the following year he was appointed superintendent of the Oudh district of his Church, with headquarters in Lucknow, and in 1899 he acted as superintendent of the Sitapur district also. Early in 1900, with his wife, he left India on furlough, journeying to America by way of the Pacific and visiting Methodist conferences at Singapore, Shanghai, Kobe, and Osaka. After his return to Lucknow in March 1901, he served three years as superintendent of the Bijnor district, with headquarters in Bijnor town. During this time he prepared many "Helps" for the use of his associates, was chosen secretary of the India Epworth League, became editor of the mission vernacular periodical, Kaukab-i-Hind ("Star of India"), and during the last year acted as head of the Oudh district also. From 1904 until his death, he was principal of his Church's theological seminary at Bareilly, and spent his unusual talents in the training of an Indian ministry. Having perfect control of Hindustani, he took occasion to visit widely throughout the Bareilly district in connection with ventures in religious education. For one year he acted as district superintendent. He continued to edit the Kaukab-i-Hind, and after 1908 was a member of the interdenominational United Council on Work among Young People. In 1909 he was superintendent of the Bijnor district again. He then went to America on furlough, returning in two years to his work at Bareilly. Though in failing health for several years, he had persevered cheerfully in his chosen career, but in 1913 he died, in Bareilly, at the age of forty-nine.
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His associates had honored him with every important office in their gift save that of bishop an office which would doubtless have come to him had he lived longer.
On March 17, 1894, he was married to Florence M. Perrine, daughter of Rev. W. H. Perrine, of Albion, Mich. , who had come to Lucknow after her graduation from Albion College in 1888 to teach in the Isabella Thoburn College.
