Henry Edward Cardinal Manning

Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (July 15, 1808 - January 14, 1892) was an English Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal.

Early Life

He was born at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, the third and youngest son of William Manning, a West India merchant, who served as a director and (1812 - 1813) as a governor of the Bank of England, and who sat in Parliament for some thirty years, representing in the Tory interest Plympton Earle, Lymington, Evesham, and Penryn consecutively. Henry's mother, Mary, daughter of Henry Leroy Hunter, of Beech Hill, Reading, came of a family said to be of French extraction. Manning spent his boyhood mainly at Coombe Bank, Sundridge, Kent, where he had for companions Charles and Christopher Wordsworth, later bishops of St Andrews and Lincoln respectively. He attended Harrow School (1822 - 1827) during the headmastership of Dr G. Butler, but obtained no distinction beyond playing in the cricket eleven in 1825.

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Totteridge - Hertfordshire - William Manning - West India - Merchant - 1812 - 1813 - Bank of England - Parliament - Tory - Plympton Earle - Lymington - Evesham - Penryn - French - Kent - Charles - Christopher Wordsworth - Harrow School - 1822 - 1827 - G. Butler - Cricket - 1825

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He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1827, and soon made his mark as a debater at the Oxford Union, where Gladstone succeeded him as president in 1830. At this date he had ambitions of a political career, but his father had sustained severe losses in business, and in these circumstances Manning, having graduated with first-class honours in 1830, obtained the year following, through Viscount Goderich, a post as a supernumerary clerk in the Colonial Office. From this, however, he resigned in 1832, his thoughts having turned towards a clerical career under Evangelical influences, which affected him deeply throughout life.

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Balliol College, Oxford - 1827 - Oxford Union - Gladstone - 1830 - Viscount Goderich - Supernumerary clerk - Colonial Office

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