manse

1 a large and imposing house [syn: mansion, mansion house, hall, residence]

2 the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman)

English

Etymology

From mansus, dwelling, from manere, to remain.

Pronunciation

• /mæns/

Noun

1. A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

Translations

• Finnish: pappila

Quotations

• circa 1890: George Otto Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, pUnknown

  All favourable hereditary influences, both intellectual and moral, are assured by a genealogy which derives from a Scotch Manse.

This article is about the house type. "Manse" is also a nickname for the city of Tampere, named after Manchester.

A manse (; from Latin mansus, "dwelling", from manere, "to remain") is a house inhabited by, or formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of a Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist or United Church.

When selling a former manse, the Church of Scotland always requires that the property should not be called "The Manse" by the new owners (but "The Old Manse" or other variations are acceptable). *Wendy Alexander (sister of Douglas), Labour MSP; current leader of the Labour Party group in the Scottish Parliament; former minister in the Scottish Executive (1999-2002)

• John Logie Baird, engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system
• John Buchan, novelist and Unionist MP, served as Governor General of Canada
• Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Peter Fraser, advocate; former Lord Advocate (1989-1992); former Conservative and Unionist MP
• James Gray, Conservative MP
• William "Captain" Kidd, pirate
• Andrew Bonar Law, former Prime Minister (1922-1923)
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• Sheena McDonald, broadcaster
• Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat MP
• John Reith, founder of the BBC
• David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party and the Social and Liberal Democrats; former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
• David Tennant (stage name of David McDonald), actor
• William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar and Orientalist
• John Witherspoon, signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence

References

See also

• Rectory
• Vicarage
• Mary Manse College
• Mystery of the Manse, see Haunted Mansion (comic)
• The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts
• Vrable manse