Background
The second son of Thomas Manningham, he was born at Eversley, Hampshire.
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Richard Manningham
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He was intended, like his elder brother Thomas, for the church, and educated at Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1717.
Career
1690–1759) was an English physician and man-midwife, now remembered for his involvement in the Mary Toft hoax. He later (1725) was mandated to take the degree of Doctor of Medicine Manningham took a house in Chancery Lane, London, and lived there till 1729, when he moved to the Haymarket, then in 1734 to Woodstock Street, and in the following year to Jermyn Street, where he resided for the rest of his life. On 10 March 1720 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and on 30 September in the same year was admitted a licentiate of the London College of Physicians.
On 18 February 1721 he was knighted by George I. He was the leading man-midwife of his day, and was sometimes engaged in the summer to attend ladies in the country.
In 1739 Manningham established a ward in the parochial infirmary of Saint James"s, Westminster, for parturient women, the first ward of the kind established in Great Britain. He lectured there on midwifery.
He died 11 May 1759 at Chelsea and was buried there. Thomas Denman praised Manningham as "successful in practice and very humane in the exercise of his art".
At the University of Street Andrews, 24 May 1765, and became a licentiate of the London College of Physicians 25 June.
He lived in his father"s house in Jermyn Street, London, till 1780, when he went to Bath, Somerset, and died there 3 February 1794.
Membership
Royal Society.
