Robert Manning (priest)

Robert Manning (1655 in Amsterdam – 4 March 1731 in Ingatestone Hall) was an English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.

Biography

Born to an English mother and Dutch father, Robert Manning entered the English College, Douai in 1668, and later taught humanities and philosophy there. Ordained priest in 1690, he was sent to the English mission in 1692, becoming chaplain to Lord Petre and other members of the Petre family at Ingatestone Hall.^[1]

Stylish, learned, and dialectically convincing, Manning produced a string of polemical works that rank him as one of the leading figures in that silver age of English Catholic controversial writing.^[2]

He died in Essex on 4 March 1731.^[3]

Works

• The Shortest Way to End Disputes about Religion, 1716
• Modern Controversy, 1720
• The Case Stated between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, 1721
• The Reform'd Churches Proved Destitute of a Lawful Ministry, 1722
• England's Conversion and Reformation Compared, 1725
• Moral Entertainments, 1742

References

1. Thompson Cooper, ‘Manning, Robert (1655–1731)’, rev. G. Bradley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Jan 2009
2. Michael Mullett, ed., English Catholicism 1680-1830. Volume 1, English Catholic Writings on Religious Controversies 1685-1736, pp. 289-90
3.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1893). "Manning, Robert". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Further reading

• C. J. Mitchell, 'Robert Manning and Thomas Howlatt: English Catholic Printing in the Early Eighteenth Century', Recusant History 17:1 (1984), pp. 38–47

External links

• Works by or about Robert Manning in libraries (WorldCat catalog)