1861, which he was able to do from his great influence with the Ngapuhi tribe, the most powerful and advanced tribe in New Zealand, amongst whom he was naturalised.
Mann, Charles, was born in 1800. Having embraced the legal profession, he was appointed in 1836 Advocate-General of South Australia, and arrived at Adelaide in January of the following year by the Coramandel. Differences with the Governor, Captain Hindmarsh, caused him to resign in Nov. 1837. He was appointed Master of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1844, Acting Judge in Feb. 1849, Crown Solicitor in Jan. 1850, Police Magistrate and Supreme Court Insolvency Commissioner in April 1856, and Commissioner of the Court of Insolvency and Stipendiary Magistrate in August 1858, which last office he held till his death, on May 24th, 1860.
Mann, Hon. Charles, Q.C., was the eldest son of the late Charles Mann (q.v.) and was born in Adelaide on April 8th, 1838. He was educated at St. Peter's College in that city, and having been articled to the firm of Messrs. Bagot & Labatt, was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1860. Mr. Mann, who was made Q.C. in 1875, entered the Assembly as member for the Burra in 1870. He was no less than five times Attorney-General—viz., in the last Hart Government, from July to Nov. 1871; in the Blyth Ministry which immediately followed it, from Nov. 1871 to Jan. 1872; in the third Blyth Ministry, from July 1873 to June 1875; in the second and third Boucaut Governments, from March to June 1876 and Oct. 1877 to Sept. 1878. Mr. Mann was Treasurer in the Morgan Administration, from Sept. 1878 to March 1881, when he was appointed Crown Solicitor and Public Prosecutor, both of which positions he filled till his death on July 7th, 1889.
Mann, John, J. P., son of the late Charles Mann (q.v.), and brother of the late Hon. Chas. Mann, Q.C. (q.v.) entered the South Australian Government service in April 1862, and has been Secretary for Public Works since May 1875.
Manning, Hon. Charles James, B.A., Puisne Judge, New South Wales, is the second son of J. Edye Manning, formerly of Sydney, N.S.W., and is the nephew of Sir William Manning (q.v.). He was born in 1841, and educated at Winchester and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1864. He entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn in Nov. 1862, and was called to the bar in Nov. 1865. In the following year he was admitted to the New South Wales bar, and practised his profession in Sydney. Having several times acted as a judge of the Supreme Court on special commissions prior to 1889, he was in that year appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and Judge in Bankruptcy and Assistant Equity Judge, and in Jan. 1891 Probate Judge on the passing of the Probate Act. Mr. Justice Manning married, first, Clara Isabella, daughter of the late J. C. Apthorpe, J.P. and D.L., of Dennington Hall, Yorkshire; and second, Emily, daughter of J. Camden Goodridge, J.P. of Hunter's Hill, N.S.W.
Manning, Frederic Norton, M.D., was born at Rothersthorp, Northamptonshire, in 1839, and studied at St. George's Hospital, London, for the medical profession, becoming an M.R.C.S. England and L.S.A London, in 1860, and M.D. of St. Andrews University in 1862. He became a surgeon in the Royal Navy, and saw considerable service with the Naval Brigade, first arriving in Australia in 1864. In 1867 he became Medical Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane at Gladesville, N.S.W., and in the next year visited and reported upon the lunatic asylums of Europe and America for the New South Wales Government, furnishing a very valuable report, which obtained a high repute in England. In 1879 he became Inspector-General of the Insane in New South Wales—a position which he still holds. The first asylum for idiots in Australia was established on the suggestion of Dr. Manning, and organised under his superintendence at Newcastle. Dr. Manning, who revisited England in 1888, is President of the Board of Health of New South Wales, and Medical Adviser to the Government and Immigration Officer, and is Health Officer at Port Jackson and a member of the Board of Pharmacy.
Manning, Hon. Sir William Montagu, M.L.C., LL.D., second son of John Edye Manning, of Clifton, Bristol, was born in June 1811 at Alphington, near Exeter, and educated at private schools and at
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