{{Short description|English clergyman and antiquarian (1721–1801)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}}

{{Infobox person | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[List of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]]}} | image = Owen Manning.jpg | birth_date = 11 August 1721 | birth_place = [[Orlingbury]], Northamptonshire | death_date = 9 September 1801 | death_place = [[Godalming]], Surrey | education = [[Bachelor of Arts]] (1740)<br>[[Master of Arts]] (1744)<br>[[Bachelor of Divinity]] (1753) | alma_mater = [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] | known_for = Clergyman and antiquarian }}

'''Owen Manning''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[List of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]]}} (11 August 1721 – 9 September 1801) was an English clergyman and antiquarian, known as a historian of [[Surrey]].

==Life== Manning was born on 11 August 1721 in [[Orlingbury]], Northamptonshire to a father of the same name. He studied at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]], where he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1740, [[Master of Arts]] in 1744, and B.D. [[Bachelor of Divinity]] in 1753.<ref>{{acad|MNN737O|Manning, Owen}}</ref> While an undergraduate he nearly died of [[smallpox]]. In 1741, he was elected to a fellowship which included residence of [[St Botolph's Church, Cambridge]]. He retained both these positions until he married in 1755.{{sfn|Cooper|1893}}

He was chaplain to [[John Thomas (bishop of Salisbury)|John Thomas]], the [[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 Harow]], an adjoining parish.{{sfn|Cooper|1893}}

He was elected [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] 10 December 1767, and [[Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries]] in 1770. He died in 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.{{sfn|Cooper|1893}}

==Works== 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 (antiquary)|William Bray]], who published them with his own additions and continuations for the benefit of Manning's widow. {{sfn|Cooper|1893}}

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.{{sfn|Cooper|1893}}

Manning completed and published the Saxon dictionary of his friend [[Edward Lye]].<ref>‘Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum. Accedunt Fragmenta Versionis Ulphilanæ, necnon Opuscula quædam Anglo-Saxonica. Edidit, nonnullis Vocabulis auxit, plurimis Exemplis illustravit, et Grammaticam utriusque Linguæ præmisit Owen Manning,’ 2 vols. London, 1772.</ref> 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, 5th Baronet|Sir Herbert Croft]].{{sfn|Cooper|1893}}

==Family== 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),<ref>{{acad|MNN773GO|Manning, George Owen}}</ref> and one of the daughters, who died young.<ref>Huntingdon Borough Records 1732-1775 HB3</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} ;Attribution {{DNB|first=Thompson|last=Cooper|wstitle=Manning, Owen|volume=35}}

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