# Owen Manning > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Owen_Manning > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Owen_Manning.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Manning > Source revision: 1332204244 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English clergyman and antiquarian (1721–1801) Owen Manning FSA Born (1721-08-11)11 August 1721 Orlingbury, Northamptonshire Died 9 September 1801(1801-09-09) (aged 80) Godalming, Surrey Education Bachelor of Arts (1740) Master of Arts (1744) Bachelor of Divinity (1753) Alma mater Queens' College, Cambridge Known for Clergyman and antiquarian **Owen Manning** [FSA](/source/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London) (11 August 1721 – 9 September 1801) was an English clergyman and antiquarian, known as a historian of [Surrey](/source/Surrey). ## Life Manning was born on 11 August 1721 in [Orlingbury](/source/Orlingbury), Northamptonshire to a father of the same name. He studied at [Queens' College, Cambridge](/source/Queens'_College%2C_Cambridge), where he graduated with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in 1740, [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts) in 1744, and B.D. [Bachelor of Divinity](/source/Bachelor_of_Divinity) in 1753.[1] While an undergraduate he nearly died of [smallpox](/source/Smallpox). In 1741, he was elected to a fellowship which included residence of [St Botolph's Church, Cambridge](/source/St_Botolph's_Church%2C_Cambridge). He retained both these positions until he married in 1755.[2] He was chaplain to [John Thomas](/source/John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Salisbury)), the [bishop of Lincoln](/source/Bishop_of_Lincoln), who collated him to the prebend of South Scarle in [Lincoln Cathedral](/source/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](/source/Great_Milton), [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire). In 1763 he was presented by Thomas Green, [Dean of Salisbury](/source/Dean_of_Salisbury), to the vicarage of [Godalming](/source/Godalming), Surrey, where he lived till his death. In 1769, he was presented by Viscount Midleton to the rectory of [Peper Harow](/source/Peper_Harow), an adjoining parish.[2] He was elected [Fellow of the Royal Society](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) 10 December 1767, and [Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries](/source/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.[2] ## 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](/source/William_Bray_(antiquary)), 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](/source/Edward_Lye).[3] He also translated and annotated *The Will of King Alfred* from the original in the library of [Thomas Astle](/source/Thomas_Astle); this was printed in 1788 under the editorship of [Sir Herbert Croft](/source/Sir_Herbert_Croft%2C_5th_Baronet).[2] ## Family By Catherine, his wife, daughter of Reade Peacock, an Alderman of [Huntingdon](/source/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] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Manning, Owen (MNN737O)"](https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=MNN737O&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50). *A Cambridge Alumni Database*. University of Cambridge. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper1893_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper1893_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper1893_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper1893_2-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper1893_2-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper1893_2-5) [Cooper 1893](#CITEREFCooper1893). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ‘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. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Manning, George Owen (MNN773GO)"](https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=MNN773GO&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50). *A Cambridge Alumni Database*. University of Cambridge. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Huntingdon Borough Records 1732-1775 HB3 **Attribution** This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): Cooper, Thompson (1893). "[Manning, Owen](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Manning,_Owen)". In [Lee, Sidney](/source/Sidney_Lee) (ed.). *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*. Vol. 35. London: [Smith, Elder & Co](/source/Smith%2C_Elder_%26_Co). Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Spain Netherlands Israel People Trove DDB Other IdRef Open Library SNAC Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Owen Manning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Manning) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Manning?action=history)). 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