Owen Manning

He amassed materials for a history of Surrey, but he did not regard his collections as sufficiently complete for publication, and a total loss of sight prevented him from having them printed. The manuscripts were eventually entrusted to William Bray, who published them with his own additions and continuations for the benefit of Manning's widow. ^[2]

The work appeared under the title of The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, with a facsimile Copy of Domesday, engraved on thirteen Plates, three volumes, London, 1804–9–14. There appeared at London in 1819 The Ecclesiastical Topography of the County of Surrey, containing Views of Churches in that County (to illustrate Manning and Bray's History of Surrey), drawn by Hill and engraved by Peak.^[2]

Manning completed and published the Saxon dictionary of his friend Edward Lye.^[3] He also translated and annotated The Will of King Alfred from the original in the library of Thomas Astle; this was printed in 1788 under the editorship of Sir Herbert Croft.^[2]

By Catherine, his wife, daughter of Reade Peacock, an Alderman of Huntingdon, he had three sons and five daughters, all of whom survived him except George Owen Manning, his eldest son (BA of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1778),^[4] and one of the daughters, who died young.^[5]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1893). "Manning, Owen". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.