Manse
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A manse (icon; from Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 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
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 or United Church. The implication is that the minister has been called by God and will remain until he/she is called elsewhere.

When selling a former manse, the Church of Scotland
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....

 always requires that the property should not be called "The Manse" by the new owners, but "The Old Manse" or some other acceptable variation. The intended result is that "The Manse" refers to a working building rather than simply apply as a name.

Popular usage

Many notable Scots are referred to as a "son (or daughter) of the manse", as a parent was a Presbyterian minister, and they were therefore brought up in a manse.

Among those to whom the epithet has been applied are:
  • Douglas Alexander
    Douglas Alexander
    Douglas Garven Alexander is a British Labour Party politician, who is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the shadow cabinet of Ed Miliband. He has held cabinet posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Secretary of State for Scotland and...

    , Secretary of State for International Development
    Secretary of State for International Development
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  • Wendy Alexander
    Wendy Alexander
    Wendy Alexander is a Scottish politician and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley North. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the leader of the Labour Party group in the Scottish Parliament from 2007-2008...

     (sister of Douglas), Labour
    Scottish Labour Party
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     MSP
    Member of the Scottish Parliament
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    ; former leader of the Labour Party group in the Scottish Parliament
    Scottish Parliament
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     (2007–2008); former minister
    Minister (government)
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     in the Scottish Executive
    Scottish Executive
    The Scottish Government is the executive arm of the devolved government of Scotland. It was established in 1999 as the Scottish Executive, from the extant Scottish Office, and the term Scottish Executive remains its legal name under the Scotland Act 1998...

     (1999–2002)
  • John Logie Baird
    John Logie Baird
    John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube...

    , engineer and inventor of the world's first working television
    Television
    Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

     system
  • Richard Baker MSP
    Richard Baker (Scottish politician)
    Richard Baker is a Scottish Labour politician, and member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland region. He was first elected in the 2003 general election, when he was the youngest sitting MSP, and since May 2011 is Labour's Finance spokesperson in the Scottish Parliament...

    , Shadow Justice Minister in the Scottish Parliament
    Scottish Parliament
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  • Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown
    James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007...

    , former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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  • John Buchan, novelist and Unionist MP, served as Governor General of Canada
    Governor General of Canada
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  • Peter Fraser
    Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
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    , advocate
    Advocate
    An advocate is a term for a professional lawyer used in several different legal systems. These include Scotland, South Africa, India, Scandinavian jurisdictions, Israel, and the British Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man...

    ; former Lord Advocate
    Lord Advocate
    Her Majesty's Advocate , known as the Lord Advocate , is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament...

     (1989–1992); former Conservative and Unionist
    Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    The Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party is the part of the British Conservative Party that operates in Scotland. Like the UK party, it has a centre-right political philosophy which promotes conservatism and strong British Unionism...

     MP
  • James Gray
    James Gray (UK politician)
    James Whiteside Gray is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for North Wiltshire.-Early life:Born in Scotland, Gray is the son of the late Rev...

    , Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
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     MP
  • William "Captain" Kidd, pirate
  • Andrew Bonar Law, former Prime Minister (1922–1923)
  • Eric Liddell
    Eric Liddell
    Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary.Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris...

    , athlete and rugby internationalist, winner of the 400 metres at the 1924 Olympic Games
    1924 Summer Olympics
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    ; missionary
    Missionary
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     to China
    China
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    ; portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice....

  • Sheena McDonald
    Sheena McDonald
    Sheena Elizabeth McDonald is a British journalist and broadcaster.- Education :She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1976 before gaining a postgraduate certificate in radio, film and television studies from the University of Bristol. Whilst at university in Edinburgh, she had a...

    , broadcaster
  • Michael Moore
    Michael Moore (UK politician)
    Michael Kevin Moore is a British Liberal Democrat politician, currently the Secretary of State for Scotland in the UK coalition government, and the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk....

    , Liberal Democrat
    Liberal Democrats
    The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

     MP
  • John Reith
    John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
    John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom...

    , founder of the BBC
    BBC
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  • William Ritchie Sorley
    William Ritchie Sorley
    William Ritchie Sorley was a Scottish philosopher. A Gifford Lecturer, he was one of the British Idealist school of thinkers, with interests in ethics.-Life:...

    , philosopher
  • David Steel
    David Steel
    David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 until its merger with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats...

    , former leader of the Liberal Party
    Liberal Party (UK)
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     and the Social and Liberal Democrats; former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
    Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
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  • David Tennant
    David Tennant
    David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...

     (stage name of David McDonald), actor
  • William Montgomery Watt
    William Montgomery Watt
    William Montgomery Watt was a Scottish historian, an Emeritus Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh...

    , Islamic studies scholar and Orientalist
    Oriental studies
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  • John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. As president of the College of New Jersey , he trained many leaders of the early nation and was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration...

    , signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
    United States Declaration of Independence
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See also

  • Rectory
    Rectory
    A rectory is the residence, or former residence, of a rector, most often a Christian cleric, but in some cases an academic rector or other person with that title...

  • Vicarage
  • Mary Manse College
    Mary Manse College
    Mary Manse College was a Catholic institution of higher education located in Toledo, Ohio from 1922 until 1975. The college was founded in 1922 at the request of the Bishop of Toledo, Samuel Stritch. Operated by the Ursuline Order of nuns, Mary Manse opened in September 1922 with thirty students...

  • Mystery of the Manse, see Haunted Mansion (comic)
    Haunted Mansion (comic)
    In October 2005, Slave Labor Graphics released a new bimonthly comic book series based on the classic Disneyland attraction, The Haunted Mansion. Each issue has roughly four or five separate stories, as well as a piece of the over-arching story "Mystery of the Manse", which recounts the life of...

  • The Old Manse
    The Old Manse
    The Old Manse is an historic manse famous for its American literary associations. It is now owned and operated as a nonprofit museum by the Trustees of Reservations...

     in Concord, Massachusetts
  • Vrable manse
    Vrable manse
    The Vrable manse was a building built in 1765 by Mikulas Vaso in the town of Vráble, Slovakia. In 1833 it was sold to Ladislav Borankai and from 1859 it was used as a manse. It was reconstructed between 1990 and the present-day look by Mons. Polak. It currently used as a manse for almost ten...

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