Background
He was born at Yass Plains to pastoralist Frederick Manton and Marie Emelia Blanchard.
He was born at Yass Plains to pastoralist Frederick Manton and Marie Emelia Blanchard.
In January 1866 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Williams, but he was forced to resign due to financial difficulty two months later. Manton died at Paddington in 1891.