Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 25 - Mangin
Mangin. — This surname belongs to the Crommelin connection. The great Crommelin and Captain Paul Mangin were married to sisters, daughters of Samuel Crommelin and Anne Testart, grand-daughters of Pierre Crommelin and Marie Desormeaux, great-grand-daughters of M. Crommelin and Marie de Semery de Camas. The great Crommelin had the same great-grand-parents, but his grand-parents were Jean Crommelin and Rachel Jacquelet, and his parents were Louis Crommelin, “le fleur de la maison,” and Marie Mettayer. Jeanne, Madame Mangin, having died, was succeeded by a second wife, née Anne Henriette d’Aulnis de la Lande. Harriette, daughter of Paul Mangin, was married to Samuel Louis Crommelin, junior (see chapter xx.). Captain Mangin spent his latter years in Dublin. I conjecture that the elegant author, Rev. Edward Mangin, M.A., descended from him. Edward Mangin’s work, which attracted most notice, was published in 1808, entitled “An Essay on Light Reading, as it may be supposed to influence moral conduct and literary taste;” a work of the same class, which he published in 1814, was “A View of the Pleasures arising from the Love of Books.” He edited Richardson’s works, in nineteen volumes, and published some translations from the French, such as “The Life of Malesherbes” (1805-1814), and “The Life of Jean Bart” (1828) — the latter is dedicated to his brother, Captain Reuben Caillaud Mangin, Royal Navy.