Background
Son of Owen Manning of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire, he was born there on 11 August 1721, and received his education at Queens" College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1740, Master of Arts
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Owen Manning
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Career
In 1744, and Bachelor of Divinity in 1753. While an undergraduate he nearly succumbed to smallpox. He was elected in 1741 to a fellowship which carried with it the living of Saint Botolph, Cambridge.
He was chaplain to John Thomas, bishop of Lincoln, who collated him to the prebend of South Scarle in Lincoln Cathedral, 5 August 1757, and on 15 March 1760 to that of Milton Ecclesia, consisting of the impropriation and advowson of the church of Great Milton, Oxfordshire.
In 1763 he was presented by Thomas Green, Dean of Salisbury, to the vicarage of Godalming, Surrey, where he lived till his death. In 1769, he was presented by Viscount Midleton to the rectory of Peper Harrow, an adjoining parish.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society 10 December 1767, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1770. He died at Godalming on 9 September 1801.
His parishioners placed a marble tablet to his memory in the church, and some private friends put an inscription on a headstone in the churchyard.
Membership
Royal Society.
