John Manningham
John Manningham (1570s โ 1622) was an English lawyer and diarist, a contemporary source for Elizabethan era and Jacobean era life and the London dramatic world, including William Shakespeare.
Life
He was son of Robert Manningham of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, by his wife Joan, daughter of John Fisher of Bledlow, Buckinghamshire.
He matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge around 1592, and graduated B.A. in 1596.[1] On 16 March 1598 he entered as a student in the Middle Temple, and on 7 June 1605 he was called to the degree of an utter barrister.
A fellow-student, Edward, son of William Curll and brother of
Diary
Manningham wrote a diary, preserved among the
Family
Manningham married, about 1607, Ann, sister of his friend Curll. They had three sons and three daughters. Walter Curll, by his will of 15 March 1646โ7, left legacies to his sister Ann Manningham and her son and his godson Walter.
Notes
- ^ "Manningham, John (MNNN592J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ John Bruce, Diary of John Manningham (London, 1868): BL Harley MS 5353.
- ^ Gabriel Heaton, 'Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities and the Dynamics of Exchange', in Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight, Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth (Oxford, 2007), pp. 241-2.
- ^ J. Payne Collier, Annals of the Stage (1831), i. 320.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Manningham, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885โ1900.