William Manning (British politician)

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William Manning (1 December 1763 – 17 April 1835) was a British merchant, politician, and Governor of the Bank of England between 1812 and 1814.

He served as Member of Parliament for Evesham, Lymington and Penryn. He also worked as a merchant in the West Indies, and invested in the Australian Agricultural Company, and becoming its Deputy Governor. The Manning River in New South Wales, Australia was named after him.

His son, Henry Manning, was ordained as an Anglican clergyman and part of the Oxford Movement, then converted to Catholicism and became Archbishop of Westminster in 1865.

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• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by The Earl of Carhampton Philip Metcalfe	Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle with Philip Metcalfe 1794–1796	Succeeded by William Adams William Mitchell
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt Nathaniel Brassey Halhed	Member of Parliament for Lymington with Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt 1796–1802 Harry Burrard 1802 John Kingston 1802–1806 1796–1806	Succeeded by John Kingston Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt
Preceded by Patrick Crauford Bruce Charles Thellusson	Member of Parliament for Evesham with Humphrey Howorth 1806–1807, 1808–1818 Sir Manasseh Lopes, Bt 1807–1808 1806–1818	Succeeded by Humphrey Howorth William Rouse Boughton
Preceded by Pascoe Grenfell Robert Stanton	Member of Parliament for Penryn with David Barclay 1826–1830	Succeeded by Sir Charles Lemon James William Freshfield