William Manning (British politician)
William Manning (1 December 1763 – 17 April 1835) was a British merchant, politician, and Governor of the Bank of England.[1]
Biography
Manning was the son of West India merchant William Coventry Manning and Elizabeth Ryan.[2] Manning's sister Martha married American Revolutionary War patriot John Laurens.[3]
Manning joined his father's firm, taking control after his father's death in 1791. He was elected a Director of the Bank of England from 1792 to 1831 and its
He worked as a merchant in the
Around the same time, he and several other merchants lobbied Secretary for Colonies William Huskisson for exclusive trading rights with New Zealand.[5] A "William Mannings" is listed as a director of the New Zealand Company in 1825, a venture chaired by the wealthy John George Lambton, Whig MP (and later 1st Earl of Durham), that made the first attempt to colonise New Zealand.[6][7][8]
Between 1794 and 1830 he served almost continuously as a
Personal life
He married twice; firstly Elizabeth, daughter of banker Abel Smith of Nottingham, with whom he had two daughters and secondly Mary, daughter of barrister Henry Lannoy Hunter of Beech Hill, Reading, Berkshire with whom he had four sons and four daughters.
He inherited
After the death of
William Manning died at Gower Street in 1835 and was buried at Sundridge, Kent.
One son, Henry Manning,[11] was ordained as an Anglican clergyman and became a leader of the Oxford Movement, later converting to Catholicism and becoming the Archbishop of Westminster in 1865.
Notes
- ^ a b "MANNING, William (1763-1835), of Copped Hall, Totteridge, Herts. and Coombe Bank, nr. Sevenoaks, Kent". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ The History of Chislehurst: Its Church, Manors, and Parish, 1899, page 223
- ^ Wallace, David Duncan. The Life of Henry Laurens: With a Sketch of the Life of Lieutenant-Colonel John Laurens. Putnam, 1915, page 466
- ^ "William Manning - Profile & Legacies Summary". UCL. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "MANNING, William (1763-1835), of Coombe Bank, nr. Sevenoaks, Kent". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-927277-19-5. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
...first published in 1977.
- ^ McDonnell, Hilda (2002). "Chapter 3: The New Zealand Company of 1825". The Rosanna Settlers: with Captain Herd on the coast of New Zealand 1826-7. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
including Thomas Shepherd's Journal and his coastal views, The NZ Company of 1825.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Wakefield, Edward Jerningham (1845). Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844: With Some Account of the Beginning of the British Colonization of the Islands. John Murray. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
Digitised 22 July 2009
- ^ "William Manning Profile & Legacies Summary". www.ucl.ac.uk. Legacies of British Slavery UCL. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ Darland's Lake Nature Reserve, London Gardens Online
- ^ Henry Edward Manning, Catholic Encyclopedia
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