Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Spencer Woodvill Seymour Carey, an assistant schoolmaster, born 1862 in St. Stephen’s, Bayswater, Middlesex and his wife Mary Mansel Carey, (nee Jones, married in the 3rd quarter of 1890 in St. George’s, Hanover Square, Middlesex), born 1864 in St. Ishmael’s, Ferryside, Carmarthen, Wales. Spencer Lort Mansel Carey was born on the 12th March1893 in Uppingham, Rutland, his siblings were, Mary Frederick Mansel, born 1892 and David Vernon Mansel, born 1895, both his siblings were born in Uppingham, in March 1901 the family home was at High Street, Uppingham. In April 1911 Spencer was a schoolboy and was residing in the family home at High Street, Uppingham, together with his father, a schoolmaster, his mother and siblings, Mary, David, a schoolboy and Augusta Hope Mansel, born 1905 in Uppingham. Spencer was a Freemason, belonging to the Vale of Catmos Lodge, No 1265. He was initiated on the 2nd November 1915. He was educated at Uppingham and Magdalen College, Oxford. After his first year in residence he gained a commission in the 8th Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment in August 1914, and joined his Battalion at the front in October 1915. He took part in five months of trench warfare at Festubert, Albert and other locations and was mortally wounded by a shell bursting near him while in the trenches at Fricourt. The President of Magdalen College, Sir Herbert Warren writes:- Amiable, modest, good all round, playing for his house in all games, a conscientious worker, a fair classic, and a prize winner in Mathematics and English, he was a valuable and valued influence at school and not less so in his short time at college.” “No sweeter natured boy,” writes the tutor who knew him best, “ever walked this earth, nor one who loathed violence and brutality more. Of such are the ‘conscientious protectors.’ His father’s profession, which he had intended to follow, lost much by his removal.” His Colonel writes of him:- “We all feel his death very much; he was such a favourite in the Battalion – always so cheerful. The Battalion will miss him much as a soldier. His work was always so thorough and he inspired his men with such confidence.” A fellow officer writes:- “In the swamp at ------ his men did the best work in the company, and I knew I could rely on him to see it carried out, at a time when supervision meant a heart breaking wallow in icy mud and water. I am sure the platoon, which was his for so long, will suffer severly from his loss. Two days before the fatal Thursday we had a severe bombardment, and though we suffered very lightly, it was a trying experience; but I am told he rose splendidly to the occasion, and no doubt it was in trying to get artillery retaliation to protect his men that he was hit two days later.” His Captain writes:- “Since October last he has been my second in command, and his death has been a very real blow to me. I relied much on his common sense and his keenness. I knew that he had a good hold upon his men, so that, from the professional point of view, I feel myself robbed of my chief assistant, whose place it will be hard to fill.”

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Photographs of Spencer 'Lort' Mansel-Carey kindly submitted by family member MML Akehurst 25/08/2015, niece to Lort.

''Their surname was 'Mansel-Carey'. However before they had arranged this by deed poll, they had all been Christened Mansel as a last Christian name. Hence they found themselves with TWO Mansels in their name!..Lort's name was actually Spencer Lort Mansel Mansel-Carey..he had three siblings: Lort's older sister was Mary Frederica Mansel Mansel-Carey. David Vernon Mansel Mansel-Carey, Lort's younger brother, was also in the Devons, but was, luckily for the family, invalided out before he was killed, & lived on in the family house in Uppingham into his 90s. Lort's father was Spencer Wooddill Seymour Mansel-Carey. He was the Classics Master at Uppingham School.