Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733, English author, b. Dordrecht, Holland. A physician, he went to London in 1692 ostensibly to learn the language, but eventually settled there permanently, practicing medicine and writing on ethical subjects. His most important work, The Fable of the Bees (1714, enl. ed. 1723, 1728), was an expansion of his poem The Grumbling Hive (1705). Mandeville declared that the mainspring of a commercial and industrial society is the self-seeking effort of individuals. Religious or legal restraints are mere fictions invented by rulers and clergymen to put men under domination. Mandeville's attitude was attacked by his contemporaries George Berkeley and William Law. However, his work had a strong influence on the doctrine of utilitarianism of the 19th cent.

Mandeville may refer to any of the following:

People

• Bernard Mandeville, philosopher
• Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
• Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex
• Sir John Mandeville, French language author
• William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex

Places

• Mandeville, Jamaica
• Mandeville, Louisiana, United States
• Mandeville, Eure, Normandy, France
• Mandeville-en-Bessin, Calvados, Normandy, France
• Mandeville, Saint-Charles-de-Mandeville, Québec, Canada
• Hardington Mandeville, Somerset, United Kingdom
• Keinton Mandeville, Somerset, England
• Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, England
• Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, England
• Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire, England

Other

• Mandeville (novel) by William Godwin
• Mandeville Primary School, Sawbridgeworth, England
• Mandeville Upper School, Buckinghamshire, England
• Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, England
• Viscount Mandeville, a subsidiary title of the Duke of Manchester, England