![]() He died unmarried in Florence on 6 November 1786 and was buried in Linton on 17 February 1787. In 1775, on the death of his elder brother, Edward Mann, Horace Mann inherited the Linton Park estate which his father had bought at Linton, Kent. and made a Knight of the Bath on 26 October 1768. In recognition of his service he was created a baronet on 3 March 1755. The correspondence was published by Lord Dover in 1833. He met Horace Walpole (to whom he was distantly related ) in 1739, and conducted a now-renowned correspondence with him over forty years, though they last met in 1741. His generosity and kindness was well known, although his close friendship with the painter Thomas Patch (expelled from Rome after a homosexual incident) reflected on his reputation. Mann kept an open house for British visitors at Palazzo Manetti, Florence, inviting them for conversazione when there was no performance at the theatre. īritish Gentlemen at Sir Thomas Mann's's Home in Florence ( circa 1765), including John Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney, by Thomas Patch Īs Great Britain had no diplomatic representation at Rome, Mann's duties included reporting on the activities of the exiled Stuarts, the Old Pretender and the Young Pretender. In the course of his long diplomatic career, he was Chargé d'affaires in 1738-1740 Minister between 17 Envoy Extraordinary from 1767 and finally Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from 1782 until his death. He then served as British diplomatic representative there to the Grand Dukes of Tuscany for the rest of his life. In February 1737, he was appointed as secretary to Charles Fane, the British Minister at Florence. Suffering from poor health, he travelled on the continent in the 1730s. He was baptised at St Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex, on 22 August 1706, brought up at Chelsea, and educated at Eton College and later, briefly, at Clare College, Cambridge. Mann was the second son of Robert Mann (1678–1751), a successful London merchant, and his wife, and Eleanor Guise Mann. Place cursor over artworks or persons to identify them. The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johann Zoffany. ![]()
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