Percy Alan Farrer Manby
{{Short description|British colonial judge (1877-1940)}}
Percy Alan Farrer Manby (1877 – 6 May 1940) was a British barrister and Supreme Court judge in British Malaya and British Guiana.
Early life and education
Percy Alan Farrer Manby was born in 1877, the only son of Sir Alan Manby. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he received his BA in 1898. In 1902, he was called to the bar of the Inner Temple.{{Cite book |last=Various |url=https://archive.org/details/whowaswhovol31920003vari/page/895/mode/1up |title=Who Was Who Vol 3 1929-1940 |date=1848 |publisher=Adam & Charles Black |others=Internet Archive |pages=895}}
Career
After working as a barrister on the south-eastern circuit, in 1909, he went to Georgetown, British Guiana where he took up the appointment of stipendiary magistrate before later becoming puisne judge of the Supreme Court. In 1915, he transferred to Malaya as judge of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States. In 1920, 1921, and 1923, he acted as Chief Judicial Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, and in 1925, 1926 and 1928, he acted as Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States.{{Cite news |date=21 September 1925 |title=F. M. S. Court of Appeal |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette19250921-1.2.42 |work=Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle |pages=9}}{{Cite news |date=31 December 1928 |title=Untitled |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19281231-1.2.47 |work=The Straits Times |pages=8}} He retired in 1931.{{Cite news |date=31 August 1915 |title=Mr. P. A. Farrer Manby, B.A., barrister-at-law |work=The Times |pages=7}}
Personal life and death
In 1915, he married Lilian Leeder and they had a daughter.{{Cite news |date=14 June 1915 |title=Marriages |work=The Times |pages=9}}
He died on 6 May 1940 in Lymington, Hampshire at the age of 62.{{Cite news |date=7 May 1940 |title=Deaths |work=The Times |pages=1}} At the inquest, a verdict of suicide was returned.{{Cite news |date=16 May 1940 |title=MR. P. A. Farrer-Manby dies in Britain |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitsbudget19400516-1.2.103 |work=The Straits Budget |pages=18}}