Mansel Harry Bates (4 August 1912 – 14 December 1980) was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne from 1970 until his death.^[1]

Bates was educated at the Liverpool Institute^[2] and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1936 after studying at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at SS John and James, Litherland. After this he was Curate in Charge of Netherton^[3] and then held incumbencies in [Everton, Liverpool|Everton] and was appointed vicar of St Lukes Crosby thenJesmond until his Archdeacon’s appointment.