printed, Belfast, 1817, 8vo; first American edition, Lancaster, 1818, 12mo. A reply by Joseph Trapp, D.D., appeared under the title of 'The Church of England defended against the Calumnies and False Reasonings of the Church of Rome,' London, 1727, 8vo. This elicited from Manning
- 'A Single Combat, or personal dispute between Mr. Trapp and his anonymous antagonist … Whether Mr. Trapp or the Author [of 'England's Conversion and Reformation compared'] has writ nonsense?' Antwerp, 1728, 8vo.
- 'The Rise and Fall of the Heresy of Iconoclasts, or Image-Breakers. Being a brief Relation of the Lives and Deaths of those Emperors of the East, who first set it up … or … oppos'd it. From the year 717 to 867. Collected by R. M.,' London, 1731, 8vo (cf. Notes and Queries, 4th ser. i. 32).
- 'Moral Entertainments on the most important Practical Truths of the Christian Religion,' 3 vols. London, 1742, 12mo. Dedicated to Lord Petre.
A posthumous publication. A treatise 'Of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary,' extracted from this work, was published at London, 1787, 12mo.
[Dodd's Church Hist. iii. 488; Gillow's Bibl. Dict. vol. i. Preface p. xiii; Cat. of Library of Trin. Coll. Dublin; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. xi. 28.]
MANNING, SAMUEL (d. 1847) sculptor, is perhaps identical with S. Manning, jun., who in 1806 exhibited at the Royal Academy a model of a young lady. He was possibly the son of Charles Manning, sculptor, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1801 to 1812, and appears to have died in that year or the next, as in 1813 an engraving of the monument to Captain Hardinge in St. Paul's Cathedral, executed by Manning, was published by Sarah Manning, probably his widow. Samuel Manning was a pupil and assistant of John Bacon the younger, and assisted in or carried out many of his works. Among these may be noted the monument of Warren Hastings in Westminster Abbey, for which Manning did the bust, and some memorial slabs to the Metcalfe family in Hawstead Church, Suffolk. In 1819 Manning sent a bust to the Royal Academy, in 1820 a statue of the Princess Charlotte, and in 1822 a model of a statue of John Wesley. There are three monumental slabs by him in St. Paul's Cathedral. Manning died in 1847, leaving a son, Samuel Manning the younger (d. 1846), who began to practise modelling in 1829. In 1830 he received a premium from the Society of Arts for a model of a bust from the antique, in 1831 a premium for a bust from the life, and in 1833 the gold medal for a model of a statue of Prometheus. This statue he subsequently executed in marble, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1845. It was engraved by B. Holl in the 'Art Union' for 1846. On 13 Aug. 1846 he married Honoria, daughter of Captain James Williams.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Art Union, 1846, p. 528; Royal Academy Catalogues; Gent. Mag. 1846, pt. ii. p. 528; information from the Rev. Leslie Mercer.]
MANNING, SAMUEL (1822–1881), baptist minister, was born at Leicester in 1822. His father, who was several times mayor of Leicester, acted for many years as churchwarden of St. Martin's in that town, but subsequently left the church of England, and with his family attended the ministry of Mr. Mursell, a well-known baptist preacher. After a short business career in Liverpool, Manning entered in 1840 the Baptist College at Bristol. In 1846, having completed his education at Glasgow University, he became a baptist minister at Sheppard's Barton, Frome, Somerset, where he remained until 1861. During his pastorate he contributed largely to denominational as well as to general literature, and was for some years editor of the 'Baptist Magazine.' In 1863 he became the general book editor of the Religious Tract Society, and when, in 1876, it was resolved that in future there should be two secretaries of the society, Manning was unanimously chosen one of them. He died at 35 Ladbroke Grove, London, on 13 Sept. 1881. He had frequently refused an offer of the degree of D.D., but a few years before his death he accepted the diploma of LL.D. from the university of Chicago.
Manning contributed to 'The Church' a series of papers called 'Infidelity tested by Fact,' reissued in book form in 1850; edited selections from the 'Prose Writings' of John Milton (1862); and projected the well-known series of illustrated books of travel published by the Religious Tract Society.
[Guardian, 21 Sept. 1881, p. 1309; Bookseller, 5 Oct. 1881, p. 885; Baptist Mag. lxxiii. 479.]
MANNING, THOMAS (1772–1840), traveller and friend of Charles Lamb, born at Broome, Norfolk, 8 Nov. 1772, was the second son of the Rev. William Manning, successively rector of Broome and Diss, who died at Diss on 29 Nov. 1810, aged 77, by his wife Elizabeth, only child of the Rev. William Adams, rector of Rollesby in the same county, who died at Diss on 28 Jan. 1782, aged 34. His elder brother, William,
